Abstract
ABSTRACTThis review essay focuses on Improvvisamente l'inverno scorso/Suddenly, Last Winter (Hofer and Ragazzi 2008), a documentary depicting the vicissitudes of a law in favor of civil unions, both gay and straight, that the Prodi government tried to pass without success in 2007. Through a variety of creative means—ranging from a sympathetic voice-over narrator, to montage, sound effects and animation, to a serious inquest reminiscent of Pasolini's Comizi d'amore/Love Meetings (1963)—the directors capture the homophobic climate and media circus that ensued after the proposed legislation was announced, strategically inserting themselves and their relationship not only in the film, but in Italy's public discourse, and asserting their right to be visible and recognized as a same sex couple in the capital's public spaces.
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