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BEFORE AND AFTER THE REVOLUTION:
ITALIA ANNI 1962-1972
THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SYSTEM
(LA DISSOLUZIONE DEL SISTEMA)
INTRODUCED BY CESARE CASARINO

THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 15, 2001,
8 PM

FREE
AUDITORIUM




THEOREM (TEOREMA)
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

This radical attack on bourgeois values and social structures, like much of Pasolini's work, takes on a mystical-religious tone that divided Catholic audiences at the time of its release. Theorem follows an upper-class family on its path toward self-destruction. 1968, Italy, color, 35mm, in Italian with English subtitles, 98 minutes.

 


BEFORE AND AFTER THE REVOLUTION: ITALIA ANNI 1962-1972 WAS PROGRAMMED IN COLLABORATION WITH SCUOLA NAZIONALE DI CINEMA-CINETECA NAZIONALE, ROME.

THE SERIES IS MADE POSSIBLE BY SUPPORT FROM FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI, FLORENCE; CINE CITTÀ HOLDING, ROME; AND ARCHIVIO AUDIOVISIVO DEL MOVIMENTO OPERAIO E DEMOCRATICO, ROME. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT WAS PROVIDED BY THE ITALIAN FILM COMMISSION, A DIVISION OF THE ITALIAN TRADE COMMISSION-LOS ANGELES, AND THE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA, CHICAGO. SPECIAL THANKS TO JIM DEMPSTER AT THE BFI, LONDON.