Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theorem Officially Announced

The British Film Institute has officially announced and detailed its upcoming Dual Format Edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Theorem a.k.a Teorema (1968), starring Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, and Massimo Girotti. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United Kingdom on May 13th.

A handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives at a bourgeois household in Milan and successively seduces each family member, not forgetting the maid. Then, as abruptly and mysteriously as he arrived, he departs, leaving the distraught members of the household to make what sense they can of their lives in the void of his absence.

In this cool, richly complex and provocative political allegory, Pasolini uses his schematic plot to explore family dynamics, the intersection of class and sex, and the nature of different sexualities. After winning a prize at the Venice Film Festival, Theorem was subsequently banned on an obscenity charge, but Pasolini later won an acquittal on the grounds of the film's 'high artistic value'.

Theorem is visually ravishing, with superb performances from its international cast and a brilliantly eclectic soundtrack featuring music by composers ranging from Mozart to Morricone.

Special Features:

• Recently restored. Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
• Optional alternative English language soundtrack
• Audio commentary by Italian film expert Robert Gordon
• An Interview with Terence Stamp (2007, 34 mins, DVD only)
• 2013 theatrical release trailer
• Illustrated booklet with an essay by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, a review by Philip Strick and biographies of Pasolini and Stamp.