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
5.3
No Skin Off My Ass
Drama, Romance
6.3
Body Double
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
6.8
The House with Laughing Windows
Mystery, Thriller, Horror
7.3
The Wise Guys
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
8.0
Close
Drama
7.8
The Substance
Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
7.2
Kiss Me Deadly
Mystery, Thriller, Crime
7.2
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Drama, Action, Science Fiction
7.0
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Action, Comedy
7.3
Joker
Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.1
Stalker
Science Fiction, Drama
8.1
Mum & Dad
Horror, Thriller
5.7
Oppenheimer
Drama, History
8.1
Poor Things
Science Fiction, Romance, Comedy
7.7
Swimming Pool
Crime, Thriller
6.5
The Shining
Horror, Thriller
8.2
Taste of Cherry
Drama
7.7
L'Avventura
Drama, Mystery, Romance
7.5
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Drama
7.1
Fighting to Be Me: The Dwen Curry Story
Drama
4.0
My Father, Die
Action, Drama
5.8
Futuro Beach
Drama
6.6
Wilde
Drama, History
6.6
Loev
Drama, Romance
5.3
Take Me for a Ride
Drama, Romance
4.3
Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Storm Breaks
Animation, Drama
0.0
Twittering Birds Never Fly: Don't Stay Gold
Animation, Drama
6.5
Hair
Music, Drama, Comedy
7.3
Aleksandr's Price
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
4.4
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
Documentary, Music
8.3
Mysterious Skin
Drama
7.7
Hidden
Drama, Romance
5.5
Undercurrent
Drama
9.0
Spun
Crime, Drama, Comedy
6.6
S.A.M.
Drama, Romance
4.5
See You Soon
Drama, Romance
5.9
Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2
Comedy, Drama
0.0
The Prince's Dilemma
Animation, Fantasy, Romance, Drama
7.5