An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealousies and frustrations -- until two hours later it's time for everybody to go home.

The Dinner

Documentary on the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini with interviews with Ettore Garofolo and Mario Cipriani. The film focuses on the locations of Pasolini's first movies and the shift of the roman outskirts from Pasolini's original poetical intuition. The film plays with juxtaposing the sound of the movies with the locations as they are today. Centrality is also given to Pasolini's voice over with rare interviews from Italian national Television.