Querelle (1982)

I too want to see this.

It's stupid and clearly shows Brad "I died of AIDS due to drugs" Davis is a homophobe.

But Brad Davis admitted to having sex with men and being bisexual.

Brad Davis in his prime!

It's a super boring movie IIRC

A load of pretentious nonsense disguised as high art.

A beauty. Fassbinder's last film. Full of mood lighting, stagey design, hyperreal stylization. So apt for genet. And then, brad. Ah brad.

r6 has pedestrian tastes.

A tedious mess.

Extremely erotic for its day.

My parents took us kids to see it, we were all in our early teens. I don't know what they were thinking.

Rather read the book OP.

A friend had a DVD of this and I borrowed it to watch a few months ago...

Eldergay here - 56 - but in spite of the Warhol poster image for it being ubiquitous when I was young - had never got around to seeing it. If read the book years ago - but could barely remember it and think I found it a bit underwhelming at the time...

So disappointed in the film! In spite of some really hot men - it managed to commit the cardinal sin of being boring. Huge snoozefest. Kept watching, hoping it'd improve and I'd engage - but didn't. And at the end I thought, well, that's an hour and a half I won't get back again...

I salute you if you make it all the way through!

I rented this film back in the days of VCRs, when I was in my early 20s and had discovered that I really liked watching guys kiss, etc. I got a headache trying to figure out this movie, but I wore out the goddamn REWIND button on the massively hot kissing scene with Brad Davis and that guy with a mustache, in the dark suit. If you've seen the movie, you know what part I'm talking about.

A few weeks ago an ex sent me 2 Genet books I never had (collections of interviews and literary "fragments), what a great ex...

My thoughts often turn to Genet. The final pages of The Thief's Journal are guaranteed to reduce me to a simpering wreck.

It's hard to describe, but I remember liking it when I watched it years ago. Even though as soon as it was over, about all I could remember was how hot Brad Davis was, and the massive penises on the set decorations. It's like, the things that happen and the words that the characters speak, they don't matter as soon as they happen, but you're still into it watching and following along a storyline that bounces back and forth in time, and noticing characters contradicting themselves. I felt like the surreal parts of it spoke to my own confused life at the time, so it didn't matter much what happened or how it played out. I'd recommend it.

Each man kills the thing he loves, la di da...

Jean Genet, right? Leonard Nimoy starred in an homosexual Henry film back in the day and was hotter.

Henry above is how autocorrect corrected Genet.

Thanks, R16. I haven't read Genet in years. Time to pull them and reread.

OP, I would say to read Querelle before you watch it. I think the film captured Genet perfectly.

I was disappointed in it when it came out, and haven't been interested in re-watching it since. I was a huge fan of Fassbinder, and he died before many of his movies found their way to the town I was living in. (And they invariably debuted in the same movie theater). I was so looking forward to this movie, so unrealistic expectations may have contributed to my disappointment.

Yes, Jean Genet wrote Querelle de Brest, and this was Fassbinder's final film as a director. And this seemed interesting to me so I bumped a thread from months ago, which I hope is OK. What an incredible movie poster too.

Sweet inspiration.

Brad wasn't hot enough to have so many tops chasing him.

R19 glad to give you some reading suggestions. I've never read the novel but would like to someday.

I saw it in the movies and remember having a hard-on throughout most of the picture.

Bump, because Turner Classic Movies is playing it tonight.

I finally saw the whole thing last night/this morning on TCM. Wow! There's a lot to unpack there. I couldn't tell you if I liked it or not. It's a film that definitely demands another viewing... assuming you're not put off by its slow pace. I noticed they used the love them from Phaedra in a couple of scenes. Brad Davis had a great body, but I always thought his face looked haggard.

I recorded it the other night and just got around to watching. Really gross film, but Neil deGrasse Tyson as the husband/brothel owner was an interesting casting choice.