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PIERROT LUNAIRE


Direction Bruce La Bruce
Year 2014
Nation Germany / Canada
Duration 56'

Synopsis

A young girl that regularly dresses as a boy falls in love and seduces a girl that has no clue that her lover has the same sex. When the girl introduces 'her boyfriend' to her father he becomes skeptical and unmasks the fraud. Even though, the feelings of the girl persist and then the father does not allow them to ever see the other again. Furious and delusional the 'boy' develops an adventurous plan to prove his true 'masculinity' to the man.. 

 


Director biography

Bruce LaBruce , born Justin Stewart,  is a Toronto based filmmaker, writer, director, photographer, and artist. He began his career in the mid eighties making a series of short experimental super 8 films and co-editing a punk fanzine called J.D.s, which begat the queercore movement. He has directed and starred in No Skin Off My Ass (1991), Super 8 1/2 (1994), Hustler White (1996). More recently he has directed art/porn features Skin Flick (2000) and The Raspberry Reich (2004) and the independent feature Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008) and L.A. Zombie (2010), starring French porn star Francois Sagat. He was honoured with retrospectives at the end of ’05 at the Madrid and Hong Kong Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals.  

 

 




Screenplay Albert Giraud (poem), Otto Erich Hartleben, Bruce La Bruce
Producer Jürgen Brüning, Tomas Liska
Cast Susanne Sachße, Paulina Bachmann, Luizo Vega
Photography Tomas Liska, Ismail Necmi
Set Designer Item Idem
Editor Tomas Liska, Jörn Hartmann
Music Arnold Schönberg
Producer Company Die Lamb, Hebbel-Theater Berlin, Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion
Distribution GM Films
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