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3) Teorema
Series
Criterion collection volume 1013
Language
Italiano
Description
Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger, perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil, who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family, precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle, blocked from an exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy, is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and...
Language
Italiano
Description
"Three stories from the man who defined Italian morals in the 1960's - Pietro Germi ('Divorce, Italian Style'). Here he takes on the church, the courts, the police and family life, sparing no sacred cow. Ably assisted by screenwriters "Age & Scarpelli' ('Divorce, Italian Style', Seduced and Abandoned') who are often considered to be the inventors of 'Commedia Italiana'. Their combined efforts earned them a Grand Prix at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival....