

The story of two brothers, Tom and Jake, and their problematic relationship.
Director
Writer
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$18,000

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.

The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.