PIERROT LUNAIRE -A Movie by Bruce LaBruce Director of Photography by Ismail Necmi 64th Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival Forum Expanded World Premiere: Sunday, feb. 9th at 14:00 at Delphi Cinema Tuesday, feb. 11th at 22:30 at Arsenal 1 Press screening: Wednesday, feb. 12th at 15:30 at Forum-Pressekino (CinemaxX 6) In 1912 the actress Albertine Zehme asked the composer Arnold Schönberg to set to music part of the Pierrot Lunaire-poems by the Belgian Albert Giraud: For five musicians and a female singer Schönberg arranged 21 of the 50 poems to become one of his ground-breaking works for music theatre. In 2011 the conductor Premil Petrovic asked the filmmaker Bruce LaBruce to direct a stage version of Pierrot Lunaire with actress Susanne Sachsse singing and performing in the title role. The concept for the stage production is grounded in Schönberg’s understanding of cabaret, which took him to a dreamworld, full of “decadent longing, guilt, rapture and fear”, endowed with horror scenarios and an ironic-satiric humour. In 2013 LaBruce took Pierrot Lunaire to the streets of Berlin to film a dark story of longing, love, and transgression. This film features a soundtrack with Petrovic’s interpretation of Schönberg’s musical melodrama, sung by Sachsse. Based on a true story, LaBruce’s Pierrot Lunaire lends an appropriately radical queercore vision to one of the most innovative contributions to atonal music. berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20141402#tab=filmStills
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