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.

A re-imagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s TEOREMA (1968), THE VISITOR follows a refugee who washes up in a small suitcase on the banks of the River Thames in London. Arriving at the house of an upper-class family, he seduces each and every family member, depicted in explicit sex scenes. Canadian queer icon and provocateur Bruce La Bruce’s latest features burlesque star Bishop Black in the titular role.

Official Selection 74th Berlin International Film Festival
Official Selection Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Official Selection Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Official Selection Queer Lisboa

“Brilliantly depraved… It’s hard to imagine anyone better suited to sticking two middle fingers up at contemporary Britain than LaBruce, and it’s even harder to imagine anyone else doing so with such disruptive, subversive glee.” (IndieWire)

“Bruce La Bruce reimagines Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 masterpiece to tackle sexual liberation and the immigrant life with the very explicit The Visitor, a pornographic picture that is as carnal as it is politically charged.” (InSession Film)

Saturday, November 23
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THE VISITOR (Bruce LaBruce, 2024 / 105 mins / NR) A refugee is among multiple identical men appearing around London. Masked as a homeless man, he visits the home of an upper class family and befriended by their maid. He intimately interacts with each catalysing their spiritual awakenings.