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Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
460 audience votes
Key crew
- Pier Paolo PasoliniDirector
- Ennio MorriconeOriginal Music Composer
- Pier Paolo PasoliniScreenplay
Cast
- Terence StampThe Visitor
- Silvana ManganoLucia, the Mother
- Massimo GirottiPaolo, the Father
- Anne WiazemskyOdetta, the Daughter
- Andrés José Cruz SoublettePietro, the Son
- Laura BettiEmilia, the Servant
- Ninetto DavoliAngelino, the Messenger
- Carlo De MejoLucia's first lover
- Adele CambriaEmilia, the Second Servant
- Luigi BarbiniBoy at the station
- Giovanni Ivan ScratugliaLucia's second lover
- Alfonso GattoDoctor
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italianbourgeoisiehost familyhouseholdstrangerlgbtbisexual manvisitormysterious charactersexual encounterdrastic change of lifeuninvited guest
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