This film was proposed by our member Sylvie Beaufils, who writes: 'I would love to see Teorema again'.
With Teorema, a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness, Pier Paolo Pasolini moved beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown. 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, 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.
Cast:
Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti