Director Pier Paolo Pasolini is a film festival of contradictions. An avowed Communist and atheist, he made his most celebrated movie an evocation of Christian drama: The Gospel According to St. Matthew. In his newest film, Teorema (English translation: Theorem), Pasolini takes images of voluptuous beauty and physical love and turns them into a film of suppurating ugliness, most of it unintentional.
A figure of arguably divine characteristics (Terence Stamp) visits an industrialist's home in Milan. His stay is brief, but during it he manages to make love to the maid, the wife, the industrialist, the daughter and the son of the...
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