Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Theorem
There are only 923 words spoken in "Teorema" – but it says everything!
1968 · 1h 35m · Not Rated
Drama, Mystery
Directed by
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Overview
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
Director and cast
- Pier Paolo Pasolini Director
- Terence Stamp as Visitor
- Silvana Mangano as Lucia, the mother
- Massimo Girotti as Paolo, the father
- Anne Wiazemsky as Odetta, the daughter
- Andrés José Cruz Soublette as Pietro, the son
- Laura Betti Cast
- Ninetto Davoli Cast
- Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia Cast
- Carlo De Mejo Cast
- Adele Cambria Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
What would be pretentious and strained in the hands of most directors, with Pasolini takes on an intense air of magical revelation.
Time Out
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