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Querelle is a 1982 English-language arthouse film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle of Brest. It was Fassbinder's last film, released shortly after his death at the age of 37.
Sep 8, 1982 · Querelle: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet. A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
Conjured from the unholy meeting of two iconoclastic queer artists, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film audaciously raises Jean Genet’s controversial novel to the level of myth.
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
In a French bordello, a young sailor meets a murderer who also is his supposed brother. Based on Jean Genet's novel.
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1982 · 1 hr 49 min. R. Drama · LGBT · Foreign/International. At a French bordello, a dashing sailor and his brother get entangled in a web of sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and intense passions.
Querelle (1982) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Querelle is at heart an arthouse erotic thriller, with elements of murder, homosexuality and repressed desires. In the movie men are unabashedly acting homoerotic towards each other, while seldom venturing into the realm of explosive sex scenes.
Querelle is a handsome sailor whose commanding officer, Seblon, worships and desires him from afar. After murdering his drug-smuggling partner, Querelle visits a notorious brothel run by the rapacious Lysiane who leads Querelle into his first homosexual encounter.
Jul 10, 2001 · QUERELLE is the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final film. Here is the story of a beautiful, proudand tough loner, a sailor named Querelle (Brad Davis), whose commanding officer, Seblon (Franco Nero), worships and desires him from afar. Querelle turns on his drug-smuggling partner and murders him.
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