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Pierrot Lunaire

02/09/2014

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0hr 51min

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Music

,Drama

STORY

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!”

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Susanne Sachße
  • Maria Ivanenko
  • Paulina Bachmann
  • Luizo Vega
  • Mehdi Berkouki

    Directors

  • Bruce LaBruce
  • Ismail Necmi

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion

    Production Countries

  • Canada
  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • German

Cast

Susanne Sachße

Pierrot Lunaire

Maria Ivanenko

Paulina Bachmann

Luizo Vega

Mehdi Berkouki

Boris Lisowski

Krishna Kumar Krishnan

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