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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 Paolo Pasolini’s most radicaI provocations, Teorema finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic expIoration of bourgeois spiritual 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 Iives. Unfolding nearly wordIessIy in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddIe—bIocked 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 EDITION 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 Pasolini: 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, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome • New EngIish subtitIe transIation • More! • PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt |
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