CARLO SINI: IL TEOREMA DELLE BACCANTI - da Euripide a Pasolini (p.1) - 2019

Author Portraits - Readings and Passions to Share (Misano Adriatico, March 1, 2019) A juxtaposition of classical tragedy and cinema in an evening entitled "The Theorem of the Bacchae." At the center of Carlo Sini's reflection will be Dionysus, the hybrid god of absolute debauchery, the most ambiguous, profound, and shocking, capable of captivating both women and men, the vital nucleus of civilization and its fatal catastrophe. He is the protagonist of Euripides' "The Bacchae," where, like a stranger from distant lands, he arrives in Thebes and destroys the established order from its foundations. Similarly, in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film "Theorem," an adaptation of the Greek classic, a fascinating stranger bursts into the solid routine of a bourgeois family and upends it with his explosive sexuality. In the sign of Dionysus, the Greek world symbolized the constitutive dualism of nature and man: one must not resist the god, under penalty of annihilation, one can only allow oneself to be possessed in the hope that, after his departure, there will be a new beginning.