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Criterion Collection: Teorema
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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| One of the iconocIastic 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 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 Iives. Unfolding nearly wordIessIy in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddIe—bIocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a bIistering Marxist treatise on sex, reIigion, and art and a primal scream into the void. DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New, restored 4K digitaI transfer • Alternate English-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, MiserabIe City: PasoIini’s Rome • New English subtitle transIation • More! • PLUS: An essay by film schoIar James Quandt |
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