Poster movie

Pierrot Lunaire

Music

Drama

Lenguage:51 min

Duration:en

Release date:Feb 9, 2014

Calificacion:5.8

Description:

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

Susanne Sachße
Susanne SachßePierrot Lunaire
Maria Ivanenko
Maria Ivanenko
Paulina Bachmann
Paulina Bachmann
Luizo Vega
Luizo Vega
Mehdi Berkouki
Mehdi Berkouki
Boris Lisowski
Boris Lisowski
Krishna Kumar Krishnan
Krishna Kumar Krishnan

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