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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

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

Starring: Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Laura Betti, Andres Jose Cruz Soublette

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Screenwriter: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Producer: Manolo Bolognini, Franco Rossellini

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Highly regarded in some quarters, Pier Paulo Pasolini's Teorema is basically a film about Terence Stamp's crotch.

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10/06/05
Dan Callahan
Dan Callahan
Slant Magazine

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.

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05/09/05
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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I 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.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A fascinating, infuriating, cryptic allegory featuring a performance from Terence Stamp as memorable as his brilliant blue stare.

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05/24/03
Jon Fortgang
Jon Fortgang
Channel 4 Film

You'll either find it brilliant, or maddening. And neither response would be wrong.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
04/11/07
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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

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10/04/05
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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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Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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A magical lyrical work about the improbable.

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01/06/04
Dennis Schwartz
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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.

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10/23/07
Variety Staff
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Variety
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What would be pretentious and strained in the hands of most directors, with Pasolini takes on an intense air of magical revelation.

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02/09/06
Time Out

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
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02/13/06
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