Querelle at Speed Cinema

Essential Cinema
Querelle
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Saturday, June 27, 6 pm
Sunday, June 28, 12:30 pm
$12 | $8 Speed members
“A work of bold artistic self-renewal.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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. 1982, Germany, DCP, 108 minutes. Recommended for 17+.