

Pierrot Lunaire
Visit website5.8/10 • 8
2014-02-09 • 0h 51m
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!”
- Directors
- Bruce LaBruce
- Writters
- Bruce LaBruce

Pierrot Lunaire
Visit website2014-02-09 • 0h 51m
5.8/10 • 8
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!”
- Directors
- Bruce LaBruce
- Writters
- Bruce LaBruce
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsSusanne Sachße
Pierrot Lunaire
Maria Ivanenko
Paulina Bachmann
Luizo Vega
Mehdi Berkouki
Boris Lisowski
Krishna Kumar Krishnan
Bruce LaBruce
Reviews0
We don't have any reviews for Pierrot Lunaire.
Media
Recommendations
Training Day
7.5
Embodiment of Evil
5.2
No Skin Off My Ass
6.3
The Incredible Hulk
6.2
Snow White and the Huntsman
6.0
Dave Chappelle: Deep in the Heart of Texas
7.7
Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer
6.8
Man of Steel
6.6
Star Trek Beyond
6.8
The Tale of Despereaux
6.1
Mirrors
6.3
Rambo: First Blood Part II
6.7
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
6.0
Cuban Fury
6.1
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
6.9
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
6.1
Source Code
7.3
Kathleen Madigan: Madigan Again
7.6
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
6.8
Killer 2
7.1
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- --
- Revenue
- --
- Keywords
- transsexuallgbt