TUE JUN 6, 2023 7:00 PM TEOREMA $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Introduction by Outfest Director of Programming Mike Dougherty ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year Two’ and ‘Outfest x American Cinematheque’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: In Italian with English subtitles One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini’s most radical provocations finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. 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 (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), 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 exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Italy