Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- italian
- culture clash
- brothel
- economic miracle
- sexism
- moral conflict
- morality
- illegal prostitution
- exploring sexuality
- virginity
The bill
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Lello Bersani
Narrator (voice)
Alberto Moravia
Self - Writer
Cesare Musatti
Self - Psychoanalyst
- Peppino Di Capri — Self - Singer
- Ezio Pascutti — Self - Football Player
- William Negri — Self - Football Player
- Carlo Furlanis — Self - Football Player
- Giuseppe Ungaretti — Self - Poet
- Camilla Cederna — Self - Writer
- Oriana Fallaci — Self - Journalist
- Adele Cambria — Self - Journalist
- Antonella Lualdi — Self - Actress
- Ignazio Buttitta — Self - Poet
- Io Appolloni — Self - Girl at Lido with Swimming Cap (uncredited)
- Directed
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Production
- Rating
- 8.3 / 10 · 293 ratings
- Studio
- Arco Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
