Love Meetings
Love Meetings (Italian: Comizi d'amore) is a 1965 feature-length documentary, shot by Italian writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who also acts as the interviewer, appearing in many scenes. 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." Content
Typical for him, Pasolini's subject is sex: he questions representatives from a variety of social brackets on topics such as virginity, prostitution, homosexuality and sex education. The interviews are made in Italy. The overarching themes are sexual ignorance, confusion and conservatism. The film is divided into four large parts, called "Ricerche" (literally, "searches"), plus a brief prologue, in which Pasolini asks children in a poor area where babies come from (the responses include "flowers," "the stork," "Jesus and God," and "my uncle") and an epilogue, in which Pasolini recites one of his poems about marriage. Also included are conversations with acclaimed author and his friend, Alberto Moravia and psychologist Cesare Musatti, or with poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, or with a group of three women journalists, including Oriana Fallaci. Structure 
The film is divided into various parts depending on the topics covered or the various areas of Italy where the interviews were filmed. First half 

 Search 1 - Large Italian-style mixed fried food. Where we see a sort of traveling salesman who goes around Italy to survey Italians on their sexual tastes: and this not to launch a product, but with the most sincere intention of understanding and reporting faithfully. How do Italians welcome the idea of films of this genre? How do they behave when faced with the idea of the importance of sex in life? Search 2 - Disgust or pity? Second half 

 Search 3 - The real Italy? Rallies on Roman beaches or sex as sex
 Rallies on the beaches of Milan or sex as a hobby
 Rallies on the southern beaches or sex as an honor
 Rallies at the lido or sex as a success
 Rallies on the (popular) Tuscan beaches or sex as pleasure
 Rallies on the Tuscan beaches (bourgeois) or sex as a duty
 Search 4 - From below and from the depths

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1965 films
1960s Italian-language films
Italian documentary films
Black-and-white documentary films
Films directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Documentary films about sexuality
1965 documentary films
1960s Italian films