THEOREM
Italy, 1968
Original title: Teorema
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Story and screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Art director: Luciano Puccini. Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Director assistant: Sergio Citti. Editor: Nino Baragli. Film score Ennio Morricone. Music coordinator: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Conductor Bruno Nicolai. Music: “Requiem” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sound manager: Dario Fronzetti. Costume designer: Marcella De Marchis. Cast and characters: Silvana Mangano (Lucia, the mother, Terence Stamp (the guest), Massimo Girotti (Paolo, the father, Anne Wiazemsky (Odetta, the daughter, Laura Betti (Emilia, the servant, Andrés José Cruz Soublette (Pietro, the son), Ninetto Davoli (Angelino, the postman). Production: Aetos Film (Roma). Length: 98’.
Format: Bluray. Under licence from Mondo TV.
Original version. Subtitles: English
The life of a wealthy industrial middle class family is turned upside down by a mysterious guest. All family members establish relationships with him that result in sexual contact. The Guest leaves and leaves the family lost and without identity, only the servant, which symbolically represents the people, reacts by revealing a fierce mystical dimension.
“The representative synthesis of Pasolini’s presence, especially in the direction of a total poem, capable of incorporating everything in itself. Everything in this film exudes poetry. If you watch it again it now, many years later, ‘Teorema’ gives the sense of a strange distance, of a detachment, which is not due to obsolescence, or loss of timeliness, but to crystallisation, decantation, and I dare say, entering the deeper and happier ‘mania’ of this film, to a transformation into a heavenly, sidereal element. ” (Andrea Zanzotto)
Saturday 21 May 2022, h. 9:30 pm
Sunday 22 May 2022, h. 2:00 pm
