Pierrot Lunaire

Available Summary:

Written and directed by Bruce LaBruce as an adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, the film adds a transgender interpretation to the work, starring Susanne Sachße as a trans man Pierrot.

-Wikipedia.

Jack's Summary:

Bruce LaBruce has made his name creating edgy LGBT+ films which fetishise race, neo-Nazi skinheads, sexual assault, incest, gore, necrophilia, terrorism, mummification, monsters, and more. To put his ethos in perspective, when he wished to draw attention to a purported prevalence of homosexuality among right-wing movements, he created the pornographic movie Skin Flick (1999), wherein a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads rape a mixed-race gay couple. Most of his films are deliberately disturbing, pretentious yet amateurish in quality, terribly-acted, and praised online as profound art.

This film in particular is a mockery of trans male identities, bodies, and surgeries. It includes genital mutilation, murder, misgendering, bandage binding, and pathetic depictions of trans maleness. The trans male protagonist is a hopeless, creepy martyr who flashes bloodied genitalia at a poor cis woman and her father, to prove that he is a "real man".

As a real trans man myself, I would not suggest watching this one. The director knows nothing about trans manhood, except how to portray a cheap and violent caricature of it. Don't waste your time.

That being said, this film is a little better than most of LaBruce's offerings in terms of acting, but that's not a high bar to clear.