Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
In a Q & A, Pasolini explains to a journalist what he means when he refers to the elite. In another clip, he asks people on the beach about sex.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Still on the beach, Pasolini asks more people their opinions on divorce, which became legal in 1970. The second part of this segment is part of a 1969 episode of Processo alla tappa, a TV talk show devoted to the Giro d'Italia (the Tour of Italy), a famous, 21-stage bike race.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini explains the difficulty of framing a city through the lens, only for it to be ruined by modern buildings that seem to have nothing to do with the form of the city itself. He wants anonymous, simple poetry to be preserved just like the works of Dante and Petrarca.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini talks about the gates to the city of Orte. They may be simple, and built by unnamed men, but that doesn't mean they don't have value to protect. He moves on to talk about Sabaudia, a city built by the fascist regime, on reclaimed marshland, roughly halfway between Rome and Naples.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pier Paolo Pasolini discusses the effects Fascism had on Italy. He talks about the city of Sabaudia, built by the fascist government on the reclaimed marshland of the ancient Pontine Marshes (Agro Pontino) and how later, what took hold was the culture of consumerism.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
As the credits role in this final segment, we hear a song written and performed by Fabrizio De André (together with Massimo Bubola. Una storia sbagliata (a story all wrong) was commissioned for a 1980 TV show about Pasolini's death, called Dietro il processo (behind the trial). You can hear the entire song here, while here you'll find the complete lyrics in Italian.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Paolo is a professional photographer, and quite popular with the ladies, but he gets himself into trouble, too.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Paolo starts out to go to work, but nothing is as it should be. Thinking of himself and only himself seems to be what he does best.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The girl whose bicycle was stolen gets to work late and is then teased when she tells why. Meanwhile Paolo is having a rough time at the airport, picking up his young nephew who comes from Belarus.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Natoli is not thrilled at all with Paolo's apartment, nor with his idea of what's for dinner.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Once again destiny throws Paolo and his neighbor Manuela together. Natoli is definitely a handful, but an observant one.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Both Paolo and Natoli are trying to make the best of the situation. This time Natoli needs some clothes. Then Paolo goes to the office and receives some news he has trouble handling.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In this episode, we start seeing a different side of Paolo, and a different side of Natoli, too, as their challenges multiply.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Paolo is famous for not remembering his girlfriends' names, but he goes over the top. Natoli knows where to go when it's time to make himself scarce.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Someone goes to school, someone goes to work, and someone goes to play "president."
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