Teorema
1968, Drama, 1h 40m
27 Reviews 2,500+ RatingsWhat to know
Anchored by powerful performances and tied together by writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini at the helm, Teorema poses intriguing questions behind a veil of mystery. Read critic reviews
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Lucia
The Visitor
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Odetta
Emilia
Angelino
Critic Reviews for Teorema
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (5)
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The film, made in 1968, was provocative then and remains so now. But it doesn't elucidate its ambivalent moral secrets easily.
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It is as if Pasolini has imagined how Italy's bland, complacent, stagnant governing class could be blown wide open: like putting a hundredweight of dynamite in the San Andreas fault.
April 11, 2013 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review… -
Whichever of the various interpretations you ascribe to this socio-political parody, the quality is undeniable.
April 8, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
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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What would be pretentious and strained in the hands of most directors, with Pasolini takes on an intense air of magical revelation.
February 9, 2006 | Full Review… -
Highly regarded in some quarters, Pier Paulo Pasolini's Teorema is basically a film about Terence Stamp's crotch.
October 6, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Teorema
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Oct 08, 2015What you get out of Teorema will largely be based on your appreciation of it as art and how it challenged in its time. Teorema is more film-based art than an art house film (which I often rate up). As a film, I found Teorema to be tedious and unnatural / contrived and rate it down. Could easily see a contemporary art lover going the opposite way and rating it up.Robert B Super Reviewer
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Jan 15, 2013A mysterious young buck visits a wealthy household, makes love to the father, son, mother, wife, and housekeeper and then leaves; all of them are lost without him and fall into separate strange tragedies. Another dry and dull, and inexplicably influential, experiment from Italian masochist Pier Paolo Passolini.Greg S Super Reviewer
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Jan 05, 2012Arresting and profound! The film begins with the ending. Stamp acts as an awakener to the pseudo-existence of the bourgeoisie. Stamp's character can be summarized by a Nick Cave lyric: I found god and all of his devils inside h(im). The second half of the film, or upon Stamp's departure, is lingeringly complex. Upon initial viewing and at a cursory level, I find each character reacting to their a...wakening or crisis of the spirit, through means of the physical, insanity, art, sexuality, misguided spirituality, or stripped naked of materialism, possibly lost in the horror of recognition. I know there is a statement in this film about society, the spirit, and its relation to the human condition and experience: I just don't know what to think of it yet.Stefanie C Super Reviewer
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Oct 03, 2011The circling theory among viewers deals with Pasolini's "unconceivable" attempt to merge Christianity and Marxism in a single feature-film. Yet, the result is magnificent, provoking, seductive, and in love with visual language and ambiguous imagery, highlighting scandal in the eyes of any given society. Brilliantly made. Who needs words when the images speak for themselves? 99/100Edgar C Super Reviewer
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