Thursday 8 May 2025 at 6.30pm
In Italian with English subtitles
Comizi d’amore (Love meetings)
Screening
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti
Documentary/1964/1h 32 mins/B&W
In this radically engaged and engaging documentary, PierPaolo Pasolini takes to the streets, town squares, beaches fctories and universities of 1960s Italy to solicit everyday citizen’s thoughts on a host of subjects, including sex work, gender equality, homosexuality, and divorce (then illegal in Italy). What emerges is both a kaleidoscopic cross section of faces and places – from the industrialised cities of the north to the rural villages of the south –and an incisive portrait of a society where, despite the rapid modernization brought on by post war “economic miracle”, hypocrisy, repression, and conformism still hold sway.
Also included are conversations with acclaimed author and friend, Alberto Moravia, psychologist Cesare Musatti, poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, and journalist Oriana Fallaci.
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that “have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978.”
The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s tragic death.
Introduction and post screening discussion with Nick Walker
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Nick Walker worked in the film industry, has written film articles for The Guardian, he is a film lecturer, programmer and host of film salon events in London and Rochester. Nick has a Master’s Degree in Film Culture.