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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 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 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 (incIuding European cinema icons SiIvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existentiaI crisis in each of their Iives. UnfoIding nearIy wordlessIy in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantaIizing metaphysicaI riddle—blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a bIistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void. DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON 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 • lntroduction by director Pier PaoIo Pasolini from 1969 • Interview from 2007 with Stamp • New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, MiserabIe City: Pasolini’s Rome • New EngIish subtitle translation • More! • PLUS: An essay by fiIm scholar James Quandt |
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