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Theorem (1968)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

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From Time Out Film Guide

In Theorem, Pasolini achieved his most perfect fusion of Marxism and religion with a film that is both political allegory and mystical fable. Terence Stamp plays the mysterious Christ or Devil figure who stays briefly with a wealthy Italian family, seducing them one by one. He then goes as quickly as he had come, leaving their whole life-pattern in ruins. What would be pretentious and strained in the hands of most directors, with Pasolini takes on an intense air of magical revelation. In fact, the superficially improbable plot retains all the logic and certainty of a detective story. With bizarre appropriateness, it was one of the last films made by Stamp before he virtually disappeared from the international film scene for some years.

Author: DP 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Producer: Franco Rossellini, Manolo Bolognini

Cast: Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Laura Betti, Andrés José Cruz, Ninetto Davoli full cast

Duration: 98 mins


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