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‘The Visitor’ Review: Bruce LaBruce Is Back with a Spunky Call-to-Arms Loosely Inspired by ‘Teorema’
Bruce LaBruce knits together an explicit smorgasbord of unsimulated sex acts in 'The Visitor,' as a stranger seduces every member of a wealthy family.
A low-budget romp set in contemporary London against a curdled cultural backdrop of racist politics, Bruce LaBruce ’s “ The Visitor ” pays explicit homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s sexually provocative last feature, “Teorema.” The cheeky Canadian director’s graphic reimagining sees various mysterious suitcases appearing here and there, each of which turns out to contain an identical naked man, all played by performance artist Bishop Black. Together with Black as the Visitor, the ensemble — consisting of the Father (Macklin Kowal), the Mother (Amy Kingsmill), the Son (Kurtis Lincoln), the Daughter (Ray Filar) and the Maid (Luca Federici) — seems prepared to go where most actors would not, outside of adult movies. The glistening and viscous substance is shot in such a way that audiences can see fine strands of it stretched between the partners as they pull apart, only to smack rhythmically back together moments later with a sticky-looking splatch (an opportunity missed in the final sound mix).
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