Querelle

R

1982

1h 45m

Drama

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63%

Tomatometer

16 Reviews

70%

Audience Score

2,500+ Ratings

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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Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

Pride is many things, but this year it’s mostly the cut of Brad Davis’s muscle shirt cradling his cleavage like no piece of cloth has this side of Marlon Brando’s Stanley Kowalski.

Jun 23, 2024

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Richard Brody

New Yorker

A work of bold artistic self-renewal.

Feb 4, 2019

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Dan Yakir

Boston Globe

It is far from perfect, but a rewarding experience nonetheless - amd a much better film than the derivative "Lola" and the convoluted "Veronika Voss" that preceded it. It is destined to become a cult classic.

Apr 27, 2018

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Rudie Obias

Battleship Pretension

It’s bold, confusing, off-putting, and at times very ugly and violent.

Jun 12, 2024

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Michael Bronski

Gay Community News (Boston)

The images on the screen are all the right ones but there is little feeling to back them up, make them valid. It’s homoeroticism without the eroticism.

Jul 12, 2022

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Guillem Martinez Oya

Cinematismo

A cult film about the beauty, the aesthetic and masculinity and how to destroy them with impuls. A really philosophical film about the aesthetic nowadays. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

May 29, 2020

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PridePosterStudios

You can sail the seven seas- in the navy

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/10/24

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Fernando S

La sexualidad cómo telón dé fondo, la película dé culto gay junto con Pink Narcisus

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/01/23

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Jens B

An erotic meditation on Genet, an abundance of sexual tension, a lot of sweaty, muscular sailors, casual anal sex, phallic imagery, and next level camera work and lighting.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

Worst film I saw in the 80s

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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william k

Fassbinder's last movie is a deliberately nefarious study of homoerotic sensibilities. a quite accurate adaptation of Genet's novel and a sum of the director's artistry: slow-paced, atmospheric, technically brilliant production design with expressionistic lighting and artificial stage settings and quite bleak.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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tina m

not everybody's type of movie

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director

Brad Davis

Querelle

Franco Nero

Lieutenant Seblon

Jeanne Moreau

Lysiane

Laurent Malet

Roger Bataille

Hanno Pöschl

Robert

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Synopsis

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

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Producer: Dieter Schidor, Sam Waynberg
Screenwriter: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Burkhard Driest
Production Co: Planet Film, Gaumont, Albatros Produktion
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 15, 2020
Runtime: 1h 45m
Sound Mix: Surround

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