Visitor, The

Visitor, The

From visionary, boundary-pushing writer-director Bruce LaBruce, The Visitor is a British-set reimagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini's iconic 1968 film Teorema. Pasolini's enigmatic protagonist, played by Terence Stamp and known to everyone as 'The Visitor,' arrives at the house of an upper-class family and seduces each member, one after the other. When he suddenly departs, he leaves behind an emptiness for which the rest attempt to compensate in different ways. In LaBruce's version, it is a refugee (played by celebrated performance artist Bishop Black) who washes up in a small suitcase on the banks of the River Thames in London. He is one of several identical-looking men who simultaneously emerge from suitcases in other locations around the city. Dressed in the guise of a homeless man, he arrives at the house of an upper-class family and gets to know the maid. When she passes him off as her nephew, the family invites him to also work for them as a live-in servant. The guest soon makes love with each of the residents of the house, depicted in explicit sex scenes. In the presence of this strange, irresistible being, each member of the household experiences a radical sexual and spiritual transformation.