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1968

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Starring	Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky
Director	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Theorem

Terence Stamp is known only as The Visitor in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema. The mysterious stranger insinuates himself into the home of a wealthy Italian family, where he exerts a curious, sensual spirituality over everyone in the household. He then wanders into the nearby village, where he casually begins performing all manner of miracles. Because he reveals so little about his innermost thoughts, The Visitor becomes all things to all people. What it boils down to is this: Is the enigmatic visitor Christ, or is he the Devil? Matching Terence Stamp's multi-textured performance every step of the way is Laura Betti as the family's maid; Betti, in fact, won the Best Actress Award at the 1968 Venice Film Festival. Director Pasolini adapted the screenplay of Teorema from his own novel.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Starring	Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Laura Betti, Andres Jose Cruz, Ninetto Davoli
Director	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Studio	BFI VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 32 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Italian
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1968 To Rent: DVD: 24 Sep 2007

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- 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
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- - New York Times
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:26
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  A film to challenge and make you think: this is not Hollywood!
  
  ‘Theorem’ was made by the brilliant but controversial director Pier Paolo Pasolini staring Brit Terence Stamp speaking his best Italian. He plays the ... read more »
  
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  - 19 Nov 2007 at 22:23
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  Awkward & Disjointed - another PPP "epic"
  
  Wow. I first looked at the DVD timer at about 6 minutes. Indicative. Usual array of people running in an utterly unnatural way, stupid looking clowns 'over... read more »
  
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  - 16 Oct 2011 at 17:55
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  Apoplectic It Isn't
  
  I had expected this to be an Italian equivalent of a thought provoking film like 'In the line of Beauty', which I watched first.
  
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  - 07 Sep 2009 at 18:16
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  Rebel without a budget – End of the Pier stuff
  
  I had the impression that this film parallels Lindsay Anderson’s ‘If,’ ‘O Lucky Man’ and the much later ‘Britannia Hospital’ ... read more »
  
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  - 12 Jun 2009 at 13:53
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  Terence Stamp is known only as The Visitor in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema. The mysterious stranger insinuates himself into the home of a wealthy Italian family, where he exerts a curious, sensual spirituality over everyone in the household. He then wanders into the nearby village, where he ...