"Teorema" Close-up of tragedy and comedy, and the cry of a ghost

Terrence Stamp and Anne Wiazemsky

``Teorema'' is unusual for a Pasolini film, as it features a cast of brilliant actors from outside Italy. Terrence Stamp and Anne Wiazemsky. Anne Wiazemsky also appears in Pasolini's next film, The Pigpen (1968), along with Jean-Pierre Léaud and Pierre Clementi.

Terence Stamp appeared in Ken Loach's `` As Poor Cow '' (1967), and then appeared in Federico Fellini's masterpiece short story ``The Devil's Necklace'' ( 1968 ). (Part 1 of ``Na Monogatari ''). As in Teorema, Terence Stamp, who played the role of ``The Man from England'', happened to meet Silvana Mangano, who he had a crush on as a teenager, when he visited Rome to dub this work. In "The Devil's Necklace," there is something special about the encounter between Terence Stamp and "Teorema," including the fact that Pasolini's name happens to appear in a line heard by a person claiming to be the representative of a film production company. Perhaps there was some fateful guidance. Terrence Stamp says that he almost never spoke to Pasolini during filming. He says that in ``Teorema,'' he learned how to be spontaneous as an actor and how to think ``just by being'' in front of the camera.

"Teorema" (c) 1985 - Mondo TV SpA

In Anne Wiazemsky's case, her appearance in Teorema set her direction. Anne Wiazemsky was in Venice for a screening of Jean-Luc Godard's The Chinese Woman (1967) and met Pasolini there. Pasolini told her that he knew her from `` Where Will Balthasar Go? '' (1966) and that he wanted her to come to the official screening of `` Inferno of Apollo '' (1967).

After that, Anne Wiazemsky, who starred in Teorema, met two important filmmakers in Italy. Marco Ferreri and Carmelo Bene. She talks about her memories from this time:

"It was a time when we were receiving a lot of very beautiful, very powerful, very contemporary things at an accelerating rate. Filmmakers at that time were involved in history itself." (Anne Wiazemsky) *2

Born as a descendant of the royal Wiazemsky family, Anne Wiazemsky moved to France and became known as Godard's muse, and at this time she became an Italian actor. He later said that he gained freedom as an actor by appearing in Pasolini's works consecutively, including ``Teorema'' and ``Pigsty''. Anne Wiazemsky, who believed that Pasolini hated her, was delighted when Pasolini asked her to appear in ``Pigpen.'' Her book `` The Day After She '' also describes her joy at that time. There was even talk of a third collaboration with Pasolini.

Anne Wiazemsky in Italian films shows a new side that is completely different from her in Godard's films. Masterpieces such as ``The Species of Man'' (69) by Marco Ferreri and ``Capricci'' (69) by Carmelo Bene. This overlaps with the image of her taking mysterious steps in ``Teorema''.