Menu
Pierrot Lunaire Poster

Pierrot Lunaire

2014 | 51m | English

(124 votes)

TMDb IMDb

Popularity: 3 (history)

Director: Bruce LaBruce
Writer: Bruce LaBruce
Staring:
Details

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
Director: Bruce LaBruce
Writer: Bruce LaBruce
Genres: Drama, Music
Keywords transsexual, lgbt
Production Companies Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion
Box Office Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Updates Updated: Feb 14, 2026
Entered: Apr 30, 2024
Trailers

Extras

No extras available.

Backdrops

International Posters

Full Credits

Name Job
Albert Giraud Poem
Tomas Liska Director of Photography
Ismail Necmi Director of Photography
Bruce LaBruce Writer, Director
Arnold Schönberg Original Music Composer
Name Title
Tomas Liska Producer
Anna Mülter Producer
Claus Matthes Producer
Jürgen Brüning Producer
Bruce LaBruce Producer
Organization Category Person
Popularity Metrics

Popularity History


Year Month Avg Max Min
2024 4 2 4 1
2024 5 3 7 1
2024 6 2 4 0
2024 7 2 4 0
2024 8 1 2 0
2024 9 1 2 1
2024 10 2 2 1
2024 11 1 3 1
2024 12 1 1 1
2025 1 1 3 1
2025 2 1 1 1
2025 3 1 1 1
2025 7 0 0 0
2025 8 0 0 0
2025 9 1 2 0
2025 10 2 2 1
2025 11 1 2 0
2025 12 3 6 0
2026 1 0 0 0
2026 2 0 0 0
2026 3 2 7 0

Trending Position


No trending metrics available.

Return to Top

Reviews

No reviews available for this movie.