Salon Italia - In Italian with English subtitles
Introduction and post screening discussion with Nick Walker

Cast: Terence Stamp, Laura betti, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Ninetto Davoli, 1968, 1h 38’, Drama

A handsome, enigmatic stranger arrives at a bourgeois household in Milan and successively seduces each family member, not forgetting the maid. Then, as abruptly and mysteriously as he arrived, he departs, leaving the members of the household to make what sense they can of their lives in the void of his absence. 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 sexuality.