Theorem (1968)

Recommended

Italy

Feature Film

Original Title: Teorema

Writer/Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini

Composer: Ennio Morricone

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

An enigmatic visitor, staying with a wealthy Milanese family, seduces one by one each of its members (including the maid), and then leaves, leaving each person profoundly and distinctly disparately changed, in Pasolini’s allegorical curio, which alternates between scenes of great power and those of a more tedious nature. Iain.Stott