Querelle
Querelle / Querelle
France, Germany 1982
DE + CZ tit. + EN tit., 106 min, 35 mm
Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Poschl, Günther Kaufmann
The last film of R. W. Fassbinder (based on the cult novel Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet) caused a scandal at the Venice IFF but became an essential part of film history. Although the sailor Querelle is strong, he is also an outcast. The crimes he commits free him, and this freedom gives him power. The drenched colour, bulging crotches, phallic sets and extraordinarily tight fitting outfits add to an air of homoeroticism seldom seen in film. A tale of passion, violence, degradation and intense sexual submission.
The screening at Mezipatra honour the 25th anniversary of Fassbinder’s death.
THX:
Brno: 3.11. – 20.30 – Art, big hall – Brno closing
Praha: 11.11. – 20.30 – Světozor, big hall – festival closing