Pierrot Lunaire (2014)

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Movie
German title Pierrot Lunaire
Original title Pierrot Lunaire
Country of production Canada
original language German ,
English
Publishing year 2014
length 50 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bruce LaBruce
script Bruce LaBruce
production Jürgen Brüning ,
Tomas Liska
music Arnold Schoenberg
camera Tomas Liska,
Ismail Necmi
cut Tomas Liska,
Jörn Hartmann
occupation

Pierrot Lunaire is a Canadian film drama by Bruce LaBruce from the year 2014 . The material and the soundtrack of the film are based on the melodrama Three times seven poems from Albert Giraud's Pierrot lunaire, op. 21 by the composer Arnold Schönberg from 1912. Bruce LaBruce transfers the material by Albert Giraud and Arnold Schönberg into a contemporary context. Pierrot is a trans man here .

action

The story LaBruce weaves into the fabric is based on real-life events that took place in Toronto in the late 1970s. Pierrot, a trans man (or a biological woman who dresses and feels like a man) falls in love with Columbine, a young woman who has no idea of ​​his transsexuality . Love is mutual. While Pierrot comes from a less wealthy background, Columbine is the daughter of an industrialist. When Columbine introduces her lover to her father, the latter is initially critical, but is convinced of his charm. One night, Columbine discovers that her lover has satisfied her with a dildo. The worried Columbine tells this to her father, who unmasked Pierrot as "non-male". He forbids his daughter to have any further contact with him. Pierrot goes to a strip bar. The glory hole on stage appears to him as a guillotine that cuts off the stripper's penis. Pierrot takes the stripper home and wants to cut off his genitals there so that he can glue it on himself. But Pierrot's sympathy for him is so strong that he doesn't kill him. In the meantime, Columbine meets with Pierrot and confesses her unconditional love to him. The next night Pierrot stopped a taxi, had the driver drive to a deserted place outside of town, stabbed him, cut off his genitals and glued them on. Then he drives the taxi to his girlfriend's father's house and rings the bell. When the father and Columbine open the door, he pulls down his pants and shows "his" male genitalia. Full of anger, the trans man proves his “true” masculinity to his father and loved one.

Formal criteria

The film is laid out like a silent film with subtitles that also contain the titles of the poems and is mainly shot in black and white. Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire can be heard on the soundtrack , while the actress Susanne Sachsse , who also embodies Pierrot, recites or sings the text. The film was shot in Berlin.

background

With the film, LaBruce also formulates social criticism, especially of the gender ratio. Pierrot acts in a way against patriarchy by cutting off the penis of a c sharp man. In the film, Columbine's father, who is an industrialist, is criticized several times as a “capitalist”. Pierrot, on the other hand, comes from a poorer background. The cast of a male figure with an actress goes back to Schönberg, who prescribed this for his play.

Another level in the film is the psychoanalytic. The castration complex, the Oedipus complex and penis envy are discussed. The penis appears as a symbol of power, which in the film is cut off by a glory hole guillotine. The permanently present moon symbolizes the female part of Pierrot. A night club dancer appears as the corporeal-male shadow of Pierrot.

Various motifs in the film are quotations from literature. The story contains all the elements of a popular melodrama . LaBruce refers to Shakespeare, to ancient myths, to the theater of the Grand Guignol . LaBruce formulates a Pierrot version of the 21st century.

Theater adaptation from 2011

The film Pierrot Lunaire is based on LaBruce's theater adaptation of Schönberg's work, which he staged in 2011 at the request of the conductor Premil Petrovic in the Berlin Theater Hebbel am Ufer under the title Pierrot Lunaire: Three times seven poems from Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire' . The film also contains film and sound recordings from the play. Schönberg's piece was interpreted by the Construction Site New Music Ensemble . In addition, techno can be heard in the nightclub scenes in the film , in which LaBruce - as well as in Schönberg's music - sees a musical revolution.

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play

  • Pierrot Lunaire: Susanne Sachsse
  • Columbine: Paulina Bachmann and Maria Ivanenko in the theater version
  • Columbine's father: Boris Lisowski
  • Pierrot's shadow or night club dancer: Mehdi Berkouki or Luzio Vega in the theater version
  • Taxi driver: Krisha Kumar Krishnan
  • Pole Dancer: Amit Elan, Krassen Krastev, Tony Weiss aka Anthony Weiss

music

Interpretation of Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Marina Nenadovic: flute, piccolo (Construction Site New Music Ensemble)
  • Veljko Kelnkovski: clarinet, bass clarinet (Construction Site New Music Ensemble)
  • Mirjana Neskovic: violin, viola (Construction Site New Music Ensemble)
  • Srjdan Sretenovic: Cello (Construction Site New Music Ensemble)
  • Neda Hoffmann: piano
  • Susanne Sachsse: Singing
  • Conductor: Premil Petrovic

Techno

  • MadLick
  • Eva Teppe

Awards and festivals

The film won the Teddy Award , Special Prize of the Jury in 2014. It was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014 .

Web links

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  1. ^ Certificate of release for Pierrot Lunaire . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b c Pierrot Lunaire, in: Film File, Program 2014, Forum Expanded, Berlinale website
  3. ↑ a b c d website of Bruce LaBruce Pierrot Lunaire on the website of Bruce LaBruce
  4. ↑ a b c d Interview Bruce LaBruce 'Pierrot Lunaire', in: Youtubekanal des Teddy Award, upload of February 11, 2014
  5. ^ Pierrot Lunaire, in: Website of the Teddy Award