Pierrot Lunaire
- Drama
- Music
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!”
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 9, 2014
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- German, English
- Countries
- Canada, Germany
- Production
- Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion
- Cast
- Luizo Vega,Krishna Kumar Krishnan,Boris Lisowski,Mehdi Berkouki,Maria Ivanenko,Paulina Bachmann,Susanne Sachße,Bruce LaBruce
- Director
- Bruce LaBruce
- Writer
- Bruce LaBruce
- Cinematography
- Ismail Necmi,Tomas Liska
- Music
- Arnold Schönberg
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt1824204