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Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Subtitled
Terence Stamp portrays a handsome stranger who enters the lives of a bourgeois Italian family and proceeds to seduce each member, including the maid. He's both God and the Devil and his divine diabolical interaction with each person causes them to re-evaluate their belief systems. Intellectual, erotic and political, Teorema is essential for Pasolini buffs and fans of foreign cinema.
"...a series of cool, beautiful often enigmatic scenes that flow one into another with the rhythm of blank verse." Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Editor's Note
The eccentric Italian director's atmospheric tale of a prominent, dysfunctional Milanese family which engineers its own destruction when a spiritually minded stranger moves in on them.
| Features | 2005 Documentary "Pasolini And Death: A Purely Intellectual Thriller" | | Audio: Italian Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16:9 TVs |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Koch International |
| Release Date: 10/4/2005 |
| Running Time: 98 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1968 | | Catalog ID: 3064 | | UPC: 00741952306498 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Italian | | Available Audio Tracks: Italian | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Venice Film Festival (1968) |  | Laura Betti, Winner, Best Actress |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"Pasolini embodied many of the contradictions that were brewing into violence in pre-1968 Europe, and so does his film, which is at once materialistic and transcendent, painfully sincere and bitterly sarcastic." 10/11/2005 p.E5Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "Still one of the most enigmatic films of its time....Pasolini in prime taboo-shattering form." 12/01/2007 p.138 Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
My guess is that Teorema is a watershed of some kind, a film out of its own time, a film nothing has prepared us for, but a film that in years to come will be seen as a turning point like early Godard. - Roger Ebert
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