A heavily symbolic and highly intellectual look at the bourgeois milieu and the effect that a mysterious visitor, Stamp, has on one specific family.
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10/23/07
Teorema (1968)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:12
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: 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.
Starring: Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Reviews for Teorema
1 - 14 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The narrative, almost silent in the first half, is unusually clear for a film by Pasolini. Performance by all members of the cast are praiseworthy, though Stamp dominates the first half and Betti, the second.
10/23/07
Top CriticYou'll either find it brilliant, or maddening. And neither response would be wrong.
04/11/07
No review available.
02/13/06
What would be pretentious and strained in the hands of most directors, with Pasolini takes on an intense air of magical revelation.
02/09/06
Highly regarded in some quarters, Pier Paulo Pasolini's Teorema is basically a film about Terence Stamp's crotch.
10/06/05
earnest experiment, but it's simply too obtuse to be a success, and too undercooked (not to mention sloppily put together) to make much of an impact
10/04/05
No review available.
06/30/05
The movie itself is the message, a series of cool, beautiful, often enigmatic scenes that flow one into another with the rhythm of blank verse.
05/09/05
Top CriticI don't feel ready to write about this mysterious film; perhaps, a week from now, I'll decide it is very bad, a failure. But perhaps it is the most brilliant work yet by that strange director, Pier Paolo Pasolini.
10/23/04
Top CriticNo review available.
10/14/04
A magical lyrical work about the improbable.
01/06/04
A fascinating, infuriating, cryptic allegory featuring a performance from Terence Stamp as memorable as his brilliant blue stare.
05/24/03
Apart from his final feature, Salo, this is probably Pier Paolo Pasolini's most controversial film, and to my mind one of his very best.
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