Teorema (#1013)

WithTeorema,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 strangerperhaps an angel, perhaps a devilwho, 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 riddleblocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracyis at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void.

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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 ofPasolini: Forms of Subjectivity
• Introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1969
• Interview from 2007 with Stamp
• New interview with John David Rhodes, author ofStupendous, Miserable City: Pasolinis Rome
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt

New cover by Nessim Higson