#0000F7/#1013: PASOLINI, Pier Paolo: Teorema (1968)
PASOLINI, Pier Paolo (Italy)
Teorema [1968]
Spine #0000F7/#1013
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film scholar James Quandt.
Commentary
From 2007 featuring Robert S. C. Gordon, author of Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity.
Alternate
English-dubbed soundtrack featuring the voices of actor Stamp and others.
Introduction
By director Pasolini from 1969.
Interview 1
From 2007 with Stamp.
Interview 2
With John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome.
Extras Rating (0-40):
Teorema [1968]
Spine #0000F7/#1013
Blu-ray
2020 synopsis
One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini's most radical provocations finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. 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 in a procession of sacred and profane images, 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.
2023 synopsis
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.
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.
98 minutes
Color
Monaural
in Italian
Monaural
in Italian
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2020
Director/Writer
Pier Paolo Pasolini was 46 when he wrote and directed Teorema.
Other Pasolini films in the Collection:
#0000F1: Accattone (1961)
#0000F2/#236: Mamma Roma (1962)
#0000F3: Love Meetings (1964)
#0000F4: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
#0000F5: The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
#0000F6: Oedipus Rex (1967)
#0000F8: Porcile (1969)
#0000F9: Medea (1969)
#632: The Decameron (1971)
#633: The Canterbury Tales (1972)
#634: Arabian Nights (1974)
#17: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)
Other Pasolini films in the Collection:
#0000F1: Accattone (1961)
#0000F2/#236: Mamma Roma (1962)
#0000F3: Love Meetings (1964)
#0000F4: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
#0000F5: The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
#0000F6: Oedipus Rex (1967)
#0000F8: Porcile (1969)
#0000F9: Medea (1969)
#632: The Decameron (1971)
#633: The Canterbury Tales (1972)
#634: Arabian Nights (1974)
#17: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film scholar James Quandt.
Commentary
From 2007 featuring Robert S. C. Gordon, author of Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity.
Alternate
English-dubbed soundtrack featuring the voices of actor Stamp and others.
Introduction
By director Pasolini from 1969.
Interview 1
From 2007 with Stamp.
Interview 2
With John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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