Teorema

REVIEW
Pasolini's fusion of Marxism, sex and religion stars a very young and attractive Stamp as a divine stranger who enters the household of a bourgeois family and profoundly affects their lives when he seduces the mother, father, son, daughter and maid. A surreal and sensual allegory with the Pasolini postulation that the ruling class can be undermined and destroyed by the one thing that it cannot control -- sex. Despite winning the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival in 1968, the film was publicly denounced by Pope Paul VI and banned as obscene in Italy. Pasolini was arrested, but in a celebrated trial he was acquitted of all charges. This is the Xenon Version that is five minutes shorter and a poorer quality print than the Connoisseur version. (Italian with English subtitles)