Love Meetings
1965 · 88 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 2,766 VOTES · DIR. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Overview
Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,755 lines
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00:00:50 Let's hear what these rascals have to say.
00:05:08 irrespective of its effects and results
00:08:39 What is the top issue in your view?
00:12:21 The right looks? But looks do not matter. There are other qualities.
00:15:50 is there a big difference between
00:19:19 seeing her purely as an erotic vision
00:23:06 Why have you chosen to earn little
00:26:55 Shame on indecent women, shame on betrayed husbands.
00:30:29 Does it seem fair to you, or is it...
00:34:25 Wouldn't you want it to change, for women to have more freedom?
00:38:25 If they're simple workers or waiters
00:42:11 - Why is one sexually inverted? - It might be by nature.
00:46:12 If you were to find out that one of your children has a sexual abnormality?
00:50:39 Yes. There was no sexuality, nothing.
00:53:59 Why not? Say it.
00:58:01 For us, here in Calabria.
01:01:44 To be honest, I don't know, because
01:05:37 marriage is too mundane.
01:09:28 Look, my big problem is to find
01:13:51 How would you solve the problem of prostitution?
01:17:56 - That can't be. - Why not?
01:21:45 - I can't answer this question. - She's a decent woman.
01:25:50 - Only then! - When?
01:30:26 If I divorced, I would always be a cuckold.