Feast of love

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Movie
German title Feast of love
Original title Comizi d'amore
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1964
length 92 minutes
Rod
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
production Alfredo Bini
camera Mario Bernardo ,
Tonino Delli Colli
cut Nino Baragli
occupation

Supper of love (also The Supper of Love or Survey on Love ; Original Title: Comizi d'amore ) is a documentary by the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1964 .

procedure

From March to November 1963, Pasolini traveled across Italy , from the industrialized north to the archaic south, asking people at work or in their free time about love and their sexual preferences . He asked the questions naively on purpose : he asked the children how children are born, the young people whether there is sexual freedom in Italy, and the mature men what they think about homosexuality . But it is precisely the naivety of the questions that often gives rise to a serious discussion, the miracle of communicating. The Italy emerges in sections, for which Pasolini feels a deep love, but also the abysses of prejudice and ignorance, the thousand contradictions that stifle the country and sometimes make it inhumane. The journey leads to the beaches by the sea, to factories in Milan , to dance halls, to the secret Sicily of the Mafia as well as to the affluent and conformist Emilia-Romagna . The topic is supplemented by conversations with representatives of cultural life, whom Pasolini sometimes pestered with the same questions that he asked the interviewees: the normality of homosexuality or sexual freedom and the scandal ( Moravia : "The scandal is basically fear, to lose one's own personality. A person who is indignant is a deeply insecure person. " ).

The film closes with a fictional moment: the wedding of two teenagers from the suburbs, Tonino and Graziella. The film camera follows the two of them individually to their apartments while they dress, go down to the street, stand together in the church in front of the altar and line up for the souvenir photo. Then they disappear into the unknown, and Pasolini reads a text: "... I wish you luck that the consciousness of your love adds itself to your love" .

Embassy

The result of the interviews in front of the camera is the image of a retrograde and withdrawn society. Italy, too, was still facing the sexual revolution . For example, divorce was not legally made possible in the Catholic country until 1970. In some places the sound was left out, which was noted as self-censorship .

Reviews

"For all its complexity a humorous and entertaining film."

“Once again, Pasolini is practicing as a relaxed documentarist who looks his compatriots on, perdono, mouth and into the heart. Molto divertente. "

- Christina Krisch in the Kronen Zeitung from January 15, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Supper of love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used