# Querelle (1982)

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**Runtime**: 109 min
**Genres**: Drama, Crime
**Directed by**: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
**Written by**: Burkhard Driest, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
**Starring**: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl, Günther Kaufmann

> *It will take you into a surreal world of passion and sexuality, further than most would dare to go.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You dock in Brest as Querelle, a sailor, but also a dealer in opium. Then you learn your brothers run the local bordello. Fassbinder's final film dares the homoerotic subtext of Genet's novel into a fever dream.

**Mood tags**: sexy, slow-burn, surreal

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