Friday, Lisa and I watched Teorema. Wow! It was strange and I enjoyed it but it wasn’t nearly as good as the movie I had in my mind. I thought it would be deeper and General Zod/Terrence Stamp would be more mysterious and ambiguous. Regardless, it was certainly fun to watch the maid turn into a saint and hover in the air. She was later buried alive and her tears became a stream. I got a kick watching the brother become an artist and piss on canvases (John do NOT get any ideas). And who could complain when the father stripped off all his clothes, ran to a desert and in the final frame of the film SCREAMS! I tell you, I love those crazy Marxist movie makers!

Here are some still images from Teorema. You will have to scroll down a bit.

An odd coincidence I noticed watching this movie. This is the second movie in a row and probably maybe the third or fourth movie in total in which all the characters have fake fur bedspreads. The movie before was La Matriarca and Catherine Spaak had a fake fur bedspread. I remember watching Ma nuit chez Maud and Françoise Fabian had a fake fur bedspread. Oddly enough, Jean-Louis Trintignant was in both La Matriarca and Ma nuit chez Maud. In addition to fake fur bedsrpeads, Ma nuit chez Maud and Teorema both shared a Marxist dialectic.