The Visitor
Bruce LaBruce
Fiction : 101' / Explicit Content, Migrations, Sexuality, Family, Politics

Bruce LaBruce suggests a re-reading of Pasolini’s Theorem (1968), in which the Italian filmmaker draws a ferocious critique to the bourgeoisie. Terence Stamp played the “visitor” who seduced each member of a family and, upon parting, left behind an existential emptiness in each one of them. In LaBruce’s re-interpretation, the “visitor” is a black male refugee who arrives at the margins of the Thames, naked, inside a suitcase. Inside this British fortress against migrants, the enigmatic and sexually fluid stranger shows up at the doorstep of an upper-class family. He seduces the maid who, to keep him close, introduces him to the family as her nephew, and he is hired to work for them. The “visitor” seduces and has sex with the mother, father, son, and daughter, plunging them into a sexual delirium painted in blue and bathed in fluids, promoting incest as the ultimate revolutionary act. By the end, the father gives name to this revolution, when he tells the “visitor” that “You colonised the coloniser”. Eventually, each family member undergoes a spiritual and sexual transformation, upon the sudden parting of the “visitor”. J.F.

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa
September 25 | 22h00 | Cinema São Jorge - Sala Manoel de Oliveira Buy Tickets
QL - Panorama
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/ Details

Year: 2024

Country: UK

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Bishop Black, Macklin Kowal, Amy Kingsmill, Kurtis Lincoln, Ray Filar, Luca Federicit

/ Direction

Bruce LaBruce

Canada


Bruce LaBruce is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, photographer, writer, and artist. Along with several short films, he has written and directed eleven feature films. As a visual artist he is represented by Peres Projects in Berlin and has exhibited in numerous gallery shows around the world. He lives in Toronto.

 

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Filmography

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

 

2024 - The Visitor (Feature Film)


2020 - Saint-Narcisse (Feature Film)

2017 - The Misandrists (Feature Film)


2013 - Gerontophilia (Feature Film)


2010 - L.A. Zombie (Feature Film)


2008 - Otto; or Up with Dead People (Feature Film)


2004 - The Raspberry Reich (Feature Film)


1996 - Hustler White (Feature Film)


1994 - Super 8½ (Feature Film)

1991 - No Skin off My Ass (Feature Film)

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