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Querelle is a 1982 English-language arthouse film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Brad Davis and was adapted from French author Jean Genet 's 1947 novel Querelle of Brest. The plot centers on the Belgian sailor Georges Querelle, who is both a thief and murderer.
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.
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- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1982-09-08
Aug 22, 2024 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film, “Querelle,” released posthumously in 1982, was the most lavish and artificial of the 40-odd movies the prolific filmmaker directed over the course of...
Mar 18, 2016 · Querelle was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film, shot only a few months before his death at age 37. For filmmaker Monika Treut, Querelle “sums up what Fassbinder expressed in many of his earlier films,” 1 but Querelle is intriguing also for intimating new and unexplored directions.
Jun 11, 2024 · A radically strange, postmodern adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is grounded by a sweaty, seething, meaty eroticism—a confrontational sexuality that remains bracing.
Querelle. 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.
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Jun 23, 2024 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film, adapted from Jean Genet's 1947 novel 'Querelle of Brest,' is a dazzling high-wire act.
