Querelle 1982

Querelle

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Movie Info

In a French bordello, a young sailor meets a murderer who also is his supposed brother. Based on Jean Genet's novel.

Cast & Crew

Brad Davis
Querelle
Franco Nero
Lieutenant Seblon
Jeanne Moreau
Lysiane
Laurent Malet
Roger Bataille
Hanno Pöschl
Robert, Gil
Günther Kaufmann
Nono
Burkhard Driest
Mario
Roger Fritz
Marcellin
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Screenwriter
Burkhard Driest
Screenwriter
Michael McLernon
Executive Producer
Dieter Schidor
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Sam Waynberg
Producer
Peer Raben
Original Music
Xaver Schwarzenberger
Cinematographer
Josef Vavra
Cinematographer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Critic Reviews for Querelle

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Audience Reviews for Querelle

  • Jan 21, 2014
    It's as if Andre Gide directed a film written by Tom of Finland and cast by the Village People. Striking visuals. Avant garde, to say the least!
    Christian C Super Reviewer
  • Sep 16, 2013
    Fassbinder's last work only proves that he wasn't really in tune with Genet's vision to adapt one of his stories, since this is only a convoluted, aimless mess packed with ridiculous, pseudo-poetic dialogue and unable to make you feel any connection with its characters.
    Carlos M Super Reviewer
  • Dec 22, 2011
    Robert(Hanno Poschl) receives a foreboding premonition from Lysiane(Jeanne Moreau) about his brother Querelle(Brad Davis). That proves eerily true when arriving in town, he makes a drug deal with Mario(Burkhard Driest), a crooked cop, that is brokered by Nono(Gunther Kaufmann), before killing a fellow sailor in a fight. Feeling lucky, Querelle makes a wager with Nono... With his last film, "Querelle," Rainer Werner Fassbinder goes out on a very, very odd note with a movie that even with its languorous pacing cannot maintain its focus for very long. I know that he was no stranger to homoeroticism in his films but here it is not that the characters are in denial about their sexuality but that they need to get in touch with their feelings. So, if things seem a little dreamlike, it is not your imagination with the deliberate artificiality of the sets, dueling narration, occasional title cards and anachronistic items like a video game and the tape recorder that Lieutenant Seblon(Franco Nero) uses to dictate his feelings about Querelle into. All of which might be explained by this being based on a novel by Jean Genet.
    Walter M Super Reviewer
  • Aug 01, 2011
    A director's wicked sexual fantasies writen in Shakesperian terms and photographed in lush Technicolor hues. A shame the characters' only motivations seem to be following their hormonal instincts and find revenge and redemption through screwing.
    Matheus C Super Reviewer
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