A previously unreleased provocation from queer cinema’s outrageous auteur Bruce LaBruce
The Troublemakers follows the lives of four down-on-their-luck characters. Surrounded by the vestiges of conspicuous consumption, they struggle to survive outside of society, fashioning their own aesthetics of poverty and devising strategies to navigate a surveillance society, evading or performing for cameras everywhere.
Funeral director Phil suddenly has to deal with his own sorrow, as his wife passes away. Along with sorrow comes a meeting with the heartbroken daughter Sarah, who Phil has not dealt with in years.
The urban on-line dictionary defines queercore as “Gay-themed, underground, independent music; usually punk rock (Team Dresch, Pansy Division, The Butchies, The Need, etc.)”. See for yourself.