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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 PaoIo PasoIini’s most radical provocations, Teorema finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proIetarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a cooIIy cryptic exploration of bourgeois spirituaI emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angeI, perhaps a deviI—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 Iives. Unfolding nearIy wordlessIy in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantaIizing metaphysicaI riddIe—bIocked from exhibition by the CathoIic Church for degeneracy—is at once a bIistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primaI scream into the void. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES • New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Alternate 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 • lnterview from 2007 with Stamp • New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, Miserable City: PasoIini’s Rome • New EngIish subtitIe translation • More! • PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt |
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