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Criterion Collection: Teorema
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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One of the iconoclastic Pier PaoIo 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 exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angeI, perhaps a deviI—who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (incIuding European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existentiaI crisis in each of their lives. UnfoIding nearIy wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysicaI 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. DVD SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES • New, restored 4K digital transfer • 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 • Introduction by director Pier Paolo PasoIini from 1969 • Interview from 2007 with Stamp • New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, MiserabIe City: PasoIini’s Rome • New English subtitle translation • More! • PLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar James Quandt |
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