Moviesflix

search

Pierrot Lunaire

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!”

hero image
release_date
2014-02-09
runtime
51 minutes
budget
$0M
revenue
$0M
genres
Music, Drama

You might also like...

Training Day
Embodiment of Evil
The Inbetweeners 2
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Inkheart
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Little Fockers
G-Force
American Reunion
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
The Package
American Pie Presents: Band Camp
Sapphire Blue
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
The Chronicles of Riddick
American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
Olympus Has Fallen
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Data provided by