Rating: R
Genre: Art House & International, Drama
Directed By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Written By: Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Burkhardt Driest, Burkhard Driest
In Theaters: Aug 31, 1982 Wide
On DVD: Jul 10, 2001
Runtime: 2 hr.
Querelle is a 1982 West German-French English-language drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle de Brest. It marked Fassbinder's final film as a writer/director; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982.
MOVIE INFO
Querelle is a sailor on shore leave in the French port of Brest. Following an argument, in which he stabs and kills his drug-smuggling partner, he seeks shelter in a nearby brothel. There he befriends the predatory madam, Lysiane, who leads him into his first homosexual encounter. From then on Querelle embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and sometimes violent sexual self-discovery that will transform him forever from the man he once was...
Querelle là một tay thủy thủ đang trong kỳ nghỉ phép trên bờ ở hải cảng Brest của Pháp. Sau một cuộc cãi vả mà kết quả là gã đâm chết tay cùng buôn lậu ma túy với mình, gã tìm nơi trú ẩn ở một nhà thổ gần đó. Ở đó, gã kết bạn với một ả bất lương là Lysiane, người dẫn dắt gã vào mối quan hệ đồng tính đầu tiên trong đời. Kể từ đó, Querelle dấn thân vào một cuộc hành trình khám phá tính dục bản thân dữ dội và đôi khi bạo lực, điều đã làm gã trở nên hoàn toàn khác với con người cũ của mình...
| Querelle | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Produced by | Michael McLernon Dieter Schidor Sam Waynberg |
| Written by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder Burkhard Driest |
| Based on | Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet |
| Starring | Brad Davis Franco Nero Jeanne Moreau Laurent Malet Hanno Pöschl |
| Music by | Peer Raben |
| Cinematography | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| Edited by | Juliane Lorenz |
Production
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| Distributed by | Scotia (West Germany) Gaumont (France) |
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Running time
| 108 minutes[1] |
| Country | West Germany France |
| Language | English |
SYNOSIS
A sailor learns to take, and give, it like a man in this surrealistic adaptation of writer and thief Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest by avant-garde German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In a colorful brothel in the port of Brest, proprietor Nono is known for wagering with his customers. Win a throw of the dice, and they get to make love with his wife, Lysiane ; lose, and they must take it from behind by Nono himself. One day, Lysiane reads the tarot for her lover, Robert , and learns in the cards of his intense passion for his brother, Querelle. Querelle himself soon arrives, and the brothers enact a bizarre greeting halfway between a hug and a wrestling match. Querelle, it seems, is looking for partners in a drug deal; Robert points him in the right direction. An argument about the merits of sex between men soon leads Querelle to murder his fellow smuggler, Vic. Back at the whorehouse, Querelle loses on purpose to Nono and finds he has a taste for passive gay sex. Meanwhile, fellow sailor Gil, who looks exactly like Querelle's brother (and is played by the same actor), murders one of his compatriots after the brute publicly impugns his manhood. Wanted by the police for both his own crime and Querelle's, Gil goes on the lam. Querelle soon crashes his hideout, and an intense bond develops between the two murderers -- a friendship that will lead Querelle to the greatest love, and the greatest treachery, of his life. Director Fassbinder was in the process of editing Querelle when he died of a drug overdose in June 1982. Gunther Kaufmann, who plays Nono, was Fassbinder's ex-lover; the film is dedicated to another former lover, El Hedi Ben Salem, the news of whose suicide had just reached the director. Critically derided even by many of Fassbinder's admirers, Querelle earned a Golden Raspberry award for Worst "Original" Song for "Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves," an Oscar Wilde poem set to music by Peer Raben and sung repeatedly by Jeanne Moreau. Moreau had previously starred in Mademoiselle, a Tony Richardson effort co-scripted by Genet. Look for Frank Ripploh, another pioneering German director, in a cameo.
BRAD DAVIS (1949 - 1991)
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