THE VISITOR (2024) — Bruce LaBruce’s “brilliantly depraved” sexually explicit new thriller only at Arkadin!
March 7 : 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm
“This is Pasolini via early John Waters, including a lengthy scene of joyous coprophagia… Shit-eating aside, the sex acts are unsimulated, with a Christ-shaped dildo memorably venturing where angels fear to tread, and plenty of bondage and threesomes and so on.” – Variety
A transgressive, sexually explicit reimagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema, Bruce LaBruce’s THE VISITOR “intersect[s] where art meets protest and porn” (Orion’s Shoulder).
A refugee emerges from a suitcase on the bank of the Thames—one of several identical men appearing across the city. Disguised as a homeless man, he infiltrates an upper-class household by befriending the maid, who claims he is her nephew. The family then hires him as a live-in servant. As in Teorema, the Visitor engages intimately with each family member – the encounters portrayed through explicit scenes. These interactions spark profound sexual and spiritual transformations within the household.
Nominated for the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Visitor is a powerfully transgressive film from one of queer cinema’s most subversive underground filmmakers.
The Visitor is screening twice, on March 7 at 9 pm and March 8 at 8 pm. Select your showtime at checkout.
“BRILLIANTLY DEPRAVED…Perverted sex is crucial to the film’s unsavory impact and not just for shock value either. It might seem that way on the surface, but to anyone familiar with La Bruce’s ongoing mission statement, it’s clear that porn is a weapon of subversion that he wields as precisely as the body liquids on display are sloppy.” – Indiewire
“Wildly ambitious…borderline pornographic…a scathing critique of bourgeois servitude and the objectification of labour as a commodity.” – International Cinephile Society
“Intersecting where art meets protest and porn, it’s pure filth.” – Orion’s Shoulder
This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s March-long series, Disruptive Guests, featuring films where visitors from other countries, other worlds, and other socioeconomic statuses upend domestic normalcy.
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