Querelle

Friday, June 20 - Saturday, June 21, 2025

Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this daring adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet recounts the tragedy of a handsome sailor (Brad Davis) as he is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality. Completed just before Fassbinder’s sudden death at age thirty-seven, QUERELLE finds the director pushing his embrace of artifice and taboo-shattering depiction of queer desire to new extremes.

Staff Pick by James Kleinmann, usher

Screening as part of our Staff Picks 2025 series

• Country Germany
• Language English
• Year 1982
• Running Time 108 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor Janus
• Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Cast Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau, Franco Nero, Laurent Malet, Dieter Schidor
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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