Querelle


Querelle is a 1982 West GermanFrench Englishlanguage drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis, adapted from French author Jean Genets 1947 novel Querelle de Brest. It marked Fassbinders final film as a writerdirector it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982.

Querelle makes a deal to sell opium to Nono, and murders his accomplice Vic. After delivering the drugs, Querelle announces that he wants to sleep with Lysiane. He knows that this means he will have to throw dice with Nono, who, as Lysianes husband, has the privilege of playing a game of chance with all of her prospective lovers. If Nono loses, the suitor is allowed to proceed with his affair. If the suitor loses, however, he must submit to anal sex with Nono first. That way, I can say my wife only sleeps with assholes, Nono says. Querelle deliberately loses the game, allowing himself to be sodomized by Nono. When Nono gloats about Querelles loss to Robert, who won his dice game, the brothers end up in a violent fight. Later, Querelle becomes Lysianes lover, and also has sex with Mario.Luckily for Querelle, a construction worker called Gil murders his coworker Theo, who had been harassing and sexually assaulting him. Gil is also considered to be the murderer of Vic. Gil hides from the police in an abandoned prison, and Roger, who is in love with Gil, establishes contact between Querelle and Gil in the hopes that Querelle can help Gil flee. Querelle falls in love with Gil, who closely resembles his brother. Gil returns his affections, but Querelle betrays Gil by tipping off the police. Querelle had cleverly arranged it so that his murder of Vic is also blamed on Gil. ........

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