Pierrot Lunaire
Rating: 5.3 · 2014 · Music, Drama · Canada, Germany · 51 мин
Description
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!”
Information
- Year
- 2014
- Genre
- Music, Drama
- Country
- Canada, Germany
- Runtime
- 51 мин
- TMDB
- 5.3
- IMDb
- 5.3
Director
Cast
- Susanne Sachße — Pierrot Lunaire
- Maria Ivanenko
- Paulina Bachmann
- Luizo Vega
- Mehdi Berkouki
- Boris Lisowski
- Krishna Kumar Krishnan
- Bruce LaBruce
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