Teorema [Criterion Collection] ( Blu-ray ) 02/18/20

One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini's most radical provocations, Teorema finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void.

CONDITION: NEW

Actors: Laura Betti, Massimo Girotti, Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Anne Wiazemsky
Format: Blu-ray, Subtitled
Language: Italian
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
NR
Not Rated
Studio: The Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: February 18, 2020