Presented through a generous partnership with Iowa City Pride
“A work of bold artistic self-renewal.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) 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.