Piercing
2022·7m
7.0
★
Adrian is a straight-passing trans guy who pierces his ear to impress his crush. When his earring elicits homophobic slurs from a passing car, he decides to confront his harasser to prove his own machismo.
Directed by Nate Gualtieri
IMDB
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Cast
River Gallo
Shaan Dasani
Popular Reviews
27 reviews
MJ
8.0★ · 08/13/25
kill me romantically
kill me romantically
urlilshy
4.0★ · 07/03/25
weird as fuck
weird as fuck
Alex Teichman
7.0★ · 02/19/25
Sequence where Abbott’s character is prepping is so sick. Seems that this is an ode to Giallos which I have not seen very many of, so would be interesting to rewatch after I have.
Sequence where Abbott’s character is prepping is so sick. Seems that this is an ode to Giallos which I have not seen very many of, so would be interesting to rewatch after I have.
Drew
7.0★ · 02/18/25
Afternoon. St Pancras. London.
Streamed through MUBI.
First Watch.
I love a pseudo-sexual-thriller more than the next guy, and Piercing really does tick those boxes to some degree on that type of film. Christopher Abbot and Mia Wasikowska have so much weird, intense, awkward but sexy chemistry it almost doesn’t matter that some of the surrealism is half-baked and contrived. I really like the contained style it imposes from the start and the inner psyche of Reed being projected through hallucinations/dream sequences of what he wants to (or really, needs to) hear is really thought provoking. Made me think of Alice Lowe’s Prevenge almost, that sort of primal humanistic urge.
Piercing is sorta provocative, it’s sorta sexy, it’s sorta Lynchian, it’s sorta Cronenberg(ian?) and it’s sorta good. Nothing more, nothing less.
Afternoon. St Pancras. London.
Streamed through MUBI.
First Watch.
I love a pseudo-sexual-thriller more than the next guy, and Piercing really does tick those boxes to some degree on that type of film. Christopher Abbot and Mia Wasikowska have so much weird, intense, awkward but sexy chemistry it almost doesn’t matter that some of the surrealism is half-baked and contrived. I really like the contained style it imposes from the start and the inner psyche of Reed being projected through hallucinations/dream sequences of what he wants to (or really, needs to) hear is really thought provoking. Made me think of Alice Lowe’s Prevenge almost, that sort of primal humanistic urge.
Piercing is sorta provocative, it’s sorta sexy, it’s sorta Lynchian, it’s sorta Cronenberg(ian?) and it’s sorta good. Nothing more, nothing less.
ingrid
could've been so perfect
could've been so perfect