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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.
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Jun 8, 2024 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 film Querelle is a film that, yes, is textually about a man grappling with his homosexual desires—and the desires of seemingly every other...
Querelle means quarrel, disagreement, squabble, argument or feud in English. Learn how to use this word in different contexts with examples from corpora and sources on the web.
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.
Querelle is a 1982 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on Jean Genet's novel of the same name. It depicts a sailor's sexual adventures in a stylized French port town, with a cast of international stars and a taboo-shattering gay theme.
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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