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PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

Teorema

With Teorema, a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness, Pier Paolo Pasolini moved beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil—who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle—blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void.

FILM INFO

Italy

1968

98 minutes

Color

1.85:1

Italian

Spine #1013

SPECIAL FEATURES

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack featuring the voices of actor Terence Stamp and others

Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Robert S. C. Gordon, author of Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity

Introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1969

Interview from 2007 with Stamp

New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome

New English subtitle translation

PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt

New cover by Nessim Higson