Opens at the Roxy Cinema in New York This Friday, the Landmark NuArt in Los Angeles on March 14th, Additional Cities to follow
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“This is Pasolini via early John Waters. An explicit smorgasbord of unsimulated sex acts in a gleefully queer film, in which a stranger seduces every member of a wealthy family.”
– Catherine Bray, VARIETY“Provocateur Bruce LaBruce is back with a brilliantly depraved family affair. Each unsimulated sex scene is more graphic and sacrilegious than the last, yet a divine ecstasy punctuates every thrust and moan.”
– David Opie, INDIEWIRE“A Love Letter to Pasolini, Penned With Blood, Sweat, and Semen. LaBruce’s work doesn’t permit complacency even when you find yourself aroused, entertained, or both at once. After indulging in the sensual and intellectual pleasures of a film like The Visitor, who would even dare want the old order back?”
– Savina Petkova, THE FILM STAGE
Synopsis
Discover Bruce LaBruce’s reimagining of Pasolini’s Teorema!London, today. A refugee washes up naked in a suitcase on the bank of the Thames. The enigmatic, sexually fluid stranger introduces himself to a bourgeois, upper class family. He is invited to stay on as an employee. The Visitor soon seduces each member of the family in a series of explicit sexual encounters. He will turn their world upside down as they are able to redefine themselves in new, radical ways.
About the Director
Bruce LaBruce is a filmmaker, photographer, writer, and artist based in Toronto but working internationally. Along with a number of short films, he has written and directed fourteen feature films, including Gerontophilia, which won the Grand Prix at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal in 2013. As a photographer he has had numerous gallery shows around the world, including a photo exhibit called “Obscenity” at La Fresh Gallery in Madrid which caused a national ruckus in Spain. His feature film L.A. Zombie premiered in competition at the Locarno film festival in 2010 and was subsequently banned in Australia.
LaBruce has had a number of notable film retrospectives, including one at the TIFF/Bell Lighthouse under the auspices of the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014, one at MoMA in New York in 2015, and one at the Cinematheque Quebecois in Montreal in 2022. His indie feature Saint-Narcisse was named one of the top ten films of 2021 by John Waters in Artforum. His porn feature, “The Affairs of Lidia,” was released in 2022. His photography book, “Death Book,” was published by Baron Book in 2021. A new book of his photography called “Photo Ephemera,” in two volumes, was released in 2022.
Director: Bruce LaBruce
Writer: Bruce LaBruce
Co-Writers: Alex Babboni, Victor Fraga
Cast: Bishop Black, Macklin Kowal, Amy Kingsmill, Ray Filar, Kurtis Lincoln, Luca Federici
Executive Prodcer: a/political
Producers: Alex Babboni, Victor Fraga
Director of Photography: Jack Hamilton
Composer: Hannah Holland
Intimacy Coordinator: Lidia Ravviso
Run Time: 101 minutes
