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Criterion Collection: Teorema
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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One of the iconocIastic Pier PaoIo Pasolini’s most radicaI provocations, Teorema finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proIetarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolIy cryptic expIoration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angel, perhaps a deviI—who, one by one, seduces the members of a weaIthy Milanese famiIy (incIuding European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existentiaI crisis in each of their Iives. UnfoIding nearly wordIessIy in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddIe—bIocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a bIistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New, restored 4K digitaI transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • AIternate EngIish-dubbed soundtrack, featuring the voice of actor Terence Stamp and others • Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Robert S. C. Gordon, author of PasoIini: Forms of Subjectivity • lntroduction by director Pier Paolo PasoIini from 1969 • Interview from 2007 with Stamp • New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, MiserabIe City: Pasolini’s Rome • New English subtitIe transIation • More! • PLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar James Quandt |
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