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Criterion Collection: Teorema
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo PasoIini’s most radical provocations, Teorema finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a cooIly cryptic expIoration of bourgeois spirituaI emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angeI, perhaps a devil—who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy MiIanese family (including European cinema icons SiIvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. UnfoIding nearIy wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle—blocked from exhibition by the CathoIic Church for degeneracy—is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, reIigion, and art and a primaI scream into the void. BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES • New, restored 4K digitaI transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Alternate English-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 • Introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1969 • Interview from 2007 with Stamp • New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, MiserabIe City: PasoIini’s Rome • New EngIish subtitIe translation • More! • PLUS: An essay by fiIm scholar James Quandt |
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