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Pierrot Lunaire (2014)

Overview

Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing the original atonal score is a narrative about a trans man who is outed by his girlfriend’s father and forbidden from seeing the young woman again. Crestfallen, the protagonist decides to prove the fact of his manhood by castrating a taxi driver and then revealing his newly transplanted member to the two of them. This story, which for LaBruce “serves as a kind of allegory for all gender radicals and outcasts driven to extremes by the disapproval and hostility of the dominant order,” is rendered in a visual style that nods to the era of Schoenberg’s melodrama. LaBruce cheekily appropriates the formal vocabulary of silent cinema with black-and-white photography, irises, and intertitles like “A cock, a cock, my kingdom for a cock!”
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Bruce LaBruce profile
Bruce LaBruce

Director

Cast

Susanne Sachße profile
Susanne Sachße

Pierrot Lunaire

Maria Ivanenko profile
Maria Ivanenko

Paulina Bachmann profile
Paulina Bachmann

Luizo Vega profile
Luizo Vega

Mehdi Berkouki profile
Mehdi Berkouki

Boris Lisowski profile
Boris Lisowski

Krishna Kumar Krishnan profile
Krishna Kumar Krishnan

Bruce LaBruce profile
Bruce LaBruce

Susanne Sachße profile
Susanne Sachße

Pierrot Lunaire

Maria Ivanenko profile
Maria Ivanenko

Paulina Bachmann profile
Paulina Bachmann

Luizo Vega profile
Luizo Vega

Mehdi Berkouki profile
Mehdi Berkouki

Boris Lisowski profile
Boris Lisowski

Krishna Kumar Krishnan profile
Krishna Kumar Krishnan

Bruce LaBruce profile
Bruce LaBruce

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Release Date

February 9, 2014

Original Language

English, German

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

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PIERROT LUNAIRE | Dir. Bruce LaBruce | Canada + Deutschland, 2014 | Trailer thumbnail
PIERROT LUNAIRE | Dir. Bruce LaBruce | Canada + Deutschland, 2014 | Trailer

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