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!”
Training Day
Action, Crime, Drama
7.5
Embodiment of Evil
Horror, Thriller
5.2
No Skin Off My Ass
Drama, Romance
6.3
Main Tera Hero
Romance, Comedy
5.7
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Horror, Thriller
5.3
As
7.0
The Psychic
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
7.0
Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar
Comedy, Romance, Family
6.3
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Romance, Fantasy, Drama
6.3
The Home
Mystery, Horror, Thriller
6.4
Laid to Rest
Thriller, Horror
5.4
Family Affairs
Comedy
6.7
Freakier Friday
Comedy, Fantasy, Family
7.0
Freaky Tales
Action, Comedy, Crime
6.4
Chopping Mall
Horror, Science Fiction
5.8
R
Crime, Drama
6.8
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Drama, Thriller
8.2
Sovereign
Crime, Drama, Thriller
6.7
Funny Farm
Comedy
6.2
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Fantasy
5.6
Mars
Drama
8.0
Home Again
Drama, Comedy
0.0
Transamerica
Drama, Adventure, Comedy
7.0
Sekaiichi Hatsukoi Movie
Animation, Romance, Drama, Comedy
6.7
Three Months
Drama
0.0
Touchscreen
Drama
3.0
We Are Dancers
Drama
0.0
Adeline
Drama, Romance
7.6
He Won't Belong
Drama
0.0
Alexander
War, History, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
5.9
Male Shorts: International V6
Drama
0.0
Stranger Out of You
Thriller, Mystery, Drama
0.0
Courts mais Gay : Tome 10
Drama
6.0
Courts mais Gay : Tome 11
Drama
0.0
The Ring Thing
Drama, Romance, Documentary
3.7
Goodbye Blue Sky
Science Fiction, Action, Drama
5.9
Our Marriages
Drama, Family, Documentary
0.0
Boy Meets Girl
Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.6
Flowers
Drama
6.3
2:37
Drama
6.5