Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17883 in VHS
• Released on: 1994-03-14
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Single, PAL
• Original language: English, Italian
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Synopsis
The eccentric Italian director's atmospheric tale of a prominent, dysfunctional Milanese family which engineers its own destruction when a spiritually minded stranger moves in on them.

Customer Reviews

This is a film for cultivated people
Do not watch this or any other Pasolini's film unless you are able to understand that film is not just entertainment and you think you're capable of reading between the lines.
This film deals with very impostant topics such as the mentality of the bourgeoisie in those years, sexuality and its taboos and spirituality.
Pasolini's style is unmistakeable and unique: only a superficial viewer would call it pretentious.
buy this film and enjoy it

All depth and no surface
This is a great film, but it requires more patients than a bankrupt proctologist. The difficulty in watching this film is that the symbols are not the servants to the meaning, but the masters, and few people like watching a film that is "unrealistic" because form revolts over matter. It feels at times like T.S. Eliot has taken Emily Dickinson by the hand and is giving her a guided tour of the Waste Land.
I admire this film greatly but I will never like it.

for pasolini fans only.
This is not an easy film to talk about. it's pretentious and absurd in places, brilliantly surreal the rest of the time. but if you like Pasolini's films then you will enjoy this. It features one of Terence Stamp's best performance.