Film Trivia is back at 7pm on Thursday, April 24th with our classic brand of infotainment quiz show fun, followed up by the Chicago Premiere of Bruce LaBruce’s, The Visitor (2024).

Legendary provocateur Bruce LaBruce reimagines Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema for our modern dystopian times. A key figure in both the New Queer Cinema and punk rock’s queercore movements, LaBruce gives us yet another politically radical and sexually transgressive cinematic feast.

A film of art, protest, and raw sexuality, The Visitor reminds us that everything is political – including, and especially, sex. We live in a hypercapitalist world where the rich use the bodies of the poor to metaphorically, yet still physically, gain their pleasure. Here we see the anonymous Visitor, a foreigner from unknown origins, washing up on the shores of England and doing the same to the social elite – but this time literally.

As The Visitor seduces each member of a single family before leaving abruptly to let them deal with the destruction of all known social norms we see LaBruce giving us more of what he is best at – showing us how social relationships (and society itself) is nothing more than a social construct, and that society is nothing more than a collection of individuals – individuals created through sexual desire.

Shocking, cheeky, upsetting, and exciting – we’re incredibly proud and honored to be hosting the Chicago premiere of this film.