Pierrot Lunaire
Pierrot Lunaire

Movie·2014·0h 51m

Pierrot Lunaire

Country

Canada

Language

English

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The 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!”

Producer

Bruce LaBruce, Tomas Liska

Cinematography

Tomas Liska

Music

Arnold Schönberg

Themes

transsexuallgbt

Production House

Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion

Audience Score

53%

9 votes

Skip16%
Timepass39%
Go for it32%
Perfection13%

Where to watch

Region: AT

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Cast

Susanne Sachße

Susanne Sachße

Pierrot Lunaire

Maria Ivanenko

Paulina Bachmann

Paulina Bachmann

Luizo Vega

Mehdi Berkouki

Boris Lisowski

Krishna Kumar Krishnan

Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce

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Crew

Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce

Director, Producer, Writer

Arnold Schönberg

Arnold Schönberg

Original Music Composer

Tomas Liska

Producer, Director of Photography

Jürgen Brüning

Jürgen Brüning

Producer

Claus Matthes

Producer

Anna Mülter

Producer

Ismail Necmi

Director of Photography

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