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Querelle

Querelle

1982, Movie, 1h 49min

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. In an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French seaport town—bathed in fiery hues and complete with phallic spires—a strapping sailor and unrepentant criminal (Brad Davis) comes ashore to arouse passion, rivalry, and violence among the libidinal denizens drawn into his orbit. Enacted with dreamlike stylization by a cast of international stars, including Jeanne Moreau and Franco Nero, QUERELLE finds Fassbinder pushing his taboo-shattering depiction of gay desire to delirious extremes.

Country: France,Germany

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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You can stream Querelle on: The Criterion Channel Tubi

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Querelle include The Long Good Friday, Down by Law, The Outsiders, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Director’s Cut), Scarface, Blood Simple.

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Querelle was released in theaters on August 5, 1982.