We analyse Rainer Werner Fassbinder final film Querelle - a homoerotic tale based on the book Querelle of Brest by Jean Genet - releasing on Tuesday 11th June
Great review Steve as always. I saw Querelle back in the early 80s. Think it was on Palace Video on VHS. At the video store i rented from it was always right next to Fitzcaraldo. I dont remember much about it but i can see where Jean Paul Gaultier was maybe slightly influenced by its visual style for his fragrance commercials. There wasnt much gay cinema back then as i remember, or not that i knew of so these kind of arthouse movies including early Derek Jarman films such as Sebastiene, we had to grab and run with. Definetely going to give it another watch as its streaming on BFI Player at the moment. Must grab a book on the history of gay cinema right back from its early days *heads on over to Amazon*. Look forward to your thoughts on Bound which ive never seen.....
It was Fassbinder's last film and it was so unfortunate that he died at such an early age (37), but his career has been so prolific up to that point, he left such a great body of work.
