PINK PALACE: THEOREM (TEOREMA)

Pink Palace our award winning weekly queer film club presents Pier Pasolini's1968 surrealist drama THEOREM (TEOREMA). A handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives at a bourgeois household in Milan and successively seduces the son, the mother, the daughter and the father, not forgetting the maid. Then, as abruptly and mysteriously as he arrived, he departs. Unable to endure the void left in their lives, the father (Massimo Girotti) hands over his factory to the workers, the son (Andrs Jos Cruz) abandons his vocation as a painter, the mother (Silvana Mangano) abandons herself to random sexual encounters, and the daughter sinks into catatonia. The maid (Laura Betti, winner Best Actress, Venice 1968), however, becomes a saint. 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 Festival, Theorem was subsequently banned on an obscenity charge, but Pasolini later won an acquittal on grounds of the film's ‘high artistic value’. BFI Please note there are NO ads or trailers, we start on time! Pink Palace is a super low fi highly relaxed event that takes place in the basement bar, its a safe queer space so come along and catch some queer film and pop culture history, each week the film is introduced by curator Andrew Woodyatt, and feel free to stay and chat afterwards, participation is encouraged!Surrealist DramaPT1H38M152024-06-05

Silvana Mangano

Terence Stamp

Massimo Girotti

Anne Wiazemsky

Laura Betti

Andres Jose Cruz Soublette

Ninetto Davoli

Carlo De Mejo

Adele Cambria

Luigi Barbini

Ivan Scratuglia

Alfonso Gatto

Cesare Garboli

Susanna Pasolini

Pier Pasolini

PINK PALACE: THEOREM (TEOREMA)"PINK PALACE: THEOREM (TEOREMA)"

Showtimes

June 5, 7:30 pm