January 14, 2021 | Arts / Entertainment

Bruce LaBruce’s ‘Saint-Narcisse’ coming to the US

Celebrated provocateur and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce’s latest film Saint-Narcisse has been sold to several territories, including the US, France and Germany.

The movie is set in 1972 Canada, and features actor Félix-Antoine Duval as a pair of identical twins who were separated at birth. Neither knew the other existed, but they meet and fall in love when reunited. The film premiered last year in the Venice Days stream at the 77th Venice International Film Festival.

Best Friend Forever is handling distribution, saying the film received “strong interest from new partners who have never worked with Bruce before.”

“Saint-Narcisse is my biggest budgeted and most ambitious movie to date with spectacular locations, elevated cinematography and art direction,” LaBruce explained.

“Every filmmaker should make at least one film in their career on the following subjects: twins or doppelgangers, incest, a cabin in the woods, nuns and/or monks, a motorcycle driver, lesbians living in the wild, and a sexually abusive priest. Saint-Narcisse has allowed me to combine all of these subjects in one film!”

Of course, LaBruce has always explored interesting, and sometimes controversial, topics in his films. L.A. Zombie was a gay pornographic zombie horror film; No Skin Off My Ass explored the love of a gay hairdresser and a Nazi skinhead; and Gerontophilia was about the relationship between an 18-year-old and a nursing-home resident.

The film should be available through streaming services or theaters sometime in 2021.