Everyone in this collective is also on a similar sense of discovery, some who may be more aware and open about their own thoughts about the lines between sex, desire and love, those who are not as open possibly feeling shame which leads to ways to deal with that shame. Including those already mentioned, this collective includes a local stone mason named Gilles who purports to desire Paulette, a young man named Roger, Paulette's brother, with who there is unspoken sexual tension with Gilles, and Mario who, at least in appearance, "polices" the activities at La Feria.
It will take you into a surreal world of passion and sexuality, further than most would dare to go. Did you know Edit. Trivia In its first three weeks in theatrical release in Paris, France, more than , tickets were sold. According to "Genet: A Biography" by Edmund White , this was the first time that a film with such a strong gay theme had achieved this kind of box-office success.
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Connections Edited into Spisok korabley User reviews 41 Review. Top review. Open minded, sexual, vibrant and a little confused. I don't think I quite understood what "Querelle" was about but the good aspect of it is that you at each view you get new things, and it grows on you. Far from being a masterpiece like "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" or "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant", but this is a very good project directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his last and the one he got some of the heaviest criticism of his career.
In a way, the most tragical of all of his works after being forced to cut part of it to get a release in America, probably the first time he ever had to back down and cut something he directed.
Based on author Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest, the movie revolves about Querelle, an Belgian sailor Brad Davis who plays with danger with his criminal affairs selling opium and his involvement with male and female, using of his good looks to get what he wants. To him and to everyone around him everything's a game in which losing sometimes can be useful the dice game where he deliberately loses in order to have sex with Nuno, played by Gunther Kauffman.
The other half of the film explores what can be called of real love between Querelle and a murderer who is played by the same actor who plays the brother. The movie is very open when it comes to presenting Querelle's involvements with both genders, specially his sexual scenes with another men, very bold at the time.
If the story gets too much on a second plan, since the ideas are somewhat vague, foggy, the high point of enjoyment of the film is seeing Querelle getting well with his mates. For the most part, the movie isn't so exciting and is very confusing with its imposition of ideas one on top of another. What's the story in deeper terms? A man discovering his sexuality, trying new things or he's trying to find real love?
Is he testing his moves as a player or he's just a man trying to survive using of his talents? Fassbinder intrigues us more with the whole concept of man being a product of his environment, adapting to his and others needs and what he makes here don't know if the same happen in the book is a strange fantasy world where everyone is bisexual or have more inclination towards another man, enjoying endless sunsets created on fake sets, surrounded by large columns resembling phallic elements.
The script is more like a literary work than a cinematic experience, with several cards expressing Querelle's inner thoughts or the captain's romantic narration watching the love of his life, working all sweaty.
Rainer had his reasons and perhaps we'll never know what motivated him making this film in the way he did, but the artist is deeply immersed in this work, putting elements of his life, his love and all including a dedication to El-Hedi Ben Salem, one of his partners, who died that year. A little bit butchered, panned by critics and part of the public, a distressing experience to the director who wasn't much in his best moment in life but with career on the top, but sadly he died and this was his last film.
Not much of a great swan song but very admirable in several ways. The risk taken by Brad Davis was incredible and unfortunately he paid the price for it, barely appearing on well-known films or great projects. But what a performance! He's really good, very desirable and makes the character be what he needs to be. Rainer Werner Fassbinder Juliane Lorenz.
Xaver Schwarzenberger Josef Vavra. Monika Jacobs Barbara Baum. Gaumont Albatros Produktion Planet Film. Germany France. People say art imitates life, and if that's the case, I'm sure it doesn't apply to Rainer Werner Fassbinder's life. As Fassbinder's final feature before drugs took his life, Querelle is probably the best attempt to project Fassbinder's turbulent life, onto the vessel of an attractive homosexual sailor in search of love in a phallic coastal city, while hiding away his true self.
Querelle is at heart an arthouse erotic thriller, with elements of murder, homosexuality and repressed desires. In the movie men are unabashedly acting homoerotic towards each other, while seldom venturing into the realm of explosive sex scenes. It's largely a slow-burn of closeted men's journey of self-exploration, at the costs of several lives and several broken hearts. Pure, unadulterated, uncompromising Fassbinder. A fantastic exploration into sexuality, masculinity, and art.
Like those, this is technically an adaptation, but Fassbinder isn't just translating the work to film -- he's presenting his own emotional response to it, making, as the on-screen title notes, 'a film about Jean Genet's Querelle de Brest. A world informed and inhabited by decades of gay fetish imagery, where the cabaret singer's songs are taken from Oscar Wilde, where knives….
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