Watch Free Pierrot Lunaire (2014) : Online Movie 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!” | ||
| Release Date | : | Feb 09, 2014 |
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| Genres | : | Music, Drama |
| Production Company | : | Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion |
| Production Countries | : | Canada, Germany |
| Casts | : | Susanne Sachße, Maria Ivanenko, Paulina Bachmann, Luizo Vega, Mehdi Berkouki, Boris Lisowski, Krishna Kumar Krishnan, Bruce LaBruce |
| Plot Keywords | : | transsexual, lgbt |
