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	Querelle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Querelle is both a 1947 novel (Querelle de Brest) by French author Jean Genet and its film adaptation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from 1982.
		Querelle, who had been smuggling drugs, murders his accomplice Vic in an act that is the typical blend of homosexuality and violence so prevalent in Genet's work.
		Querelle had cleverly arranged it that his murder of Vic is also blamed on Gil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Querelle (273 words)

	The Very Best Books : Querelle
		Querelle is perhaps Genet's most interesting novel, indeed, it's his only novel that does not contain directly autobiographical references.
		Querelle can be interpreted in many ways - but it cannot be disputed that this story is in a way about the double nature of all human beings.
		Genet's Querelle de Brest is a novel that could not have been written by an American at the time of its initial publication, and probably still couldn't be today.
	www.elise.com /store/0802151574/Querelle.html (407 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Querelle
		Querelle is nothing like those films, as much an attack on Fassbinder's own body of work as it is an attack on the conventions of sexual identity in film.
		Querelle is a film about gazing, in which we (the audience) are forced to gaze from a distance as well, to render order on the morally disjointed world where legal and sexual standards shift constantly.
		Like Querelle, who must become a slave, erase his identity, in order to succeed in proving himself truly free and the architect of his own destiny, Fassbinder seems bent on picking a fight, wanting to construct a haughty crime of a movie in order to prove that he can thumb his nose at convention.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/querelle.php (1365 words)

	Querelle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Sure, Querelle is supposed to be passionless yet he is a murderer and a masochist so there is room for a character.
		In "Querelle" the emotion required to have sex is the same emotion required to kill or to fist-fight.
		Robert does not like that Querelle is gay so it is possible that this is supposed to be 2 halves of the same gay male, constantly at war with himself about his true feelings.
	www.filethirteen.com /reviews/querelle/querelle.htm (964 words)

	Querelle
		Querelle, in some obscure way, knew he that he was coming close to his own point of perfection: clad in his blue garb, cloaked in its prestige, he was no longer a simple murderer, but a seducer as well.
		A flash of anger ran through Querelle's body: he looked extremely beautiful now, with his head held up, shoulders motionless and tense, buttocks tight, hips very straight (drawn in by the strain in the legs that was raising the buttocks), yet of a slimness that enhanced the overall impression of cruelty.
		He was holding Querelle with seemingly the same passion a female animal shows when holding the dead body of her young offspring - the attitude by which we comprehend what love is: consciousness of the division of what previously was one, of what it is to be thus divided, while you yourself are watching yourself.
	www.borndigital.com /hermes/genet.htm (3220 words)

	QUERELLE - 1/2* (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Querelle is an awesomely bad movie--so awful, indeed, that were its impenetrable story told with a little less pretentiousness and a little more energy it would be hilarious.
		Querelle is a truly befuddling film, something that blows itself apart in so many ways that it's astonishing.
		I think it was a happy ending, because Querelle was finally back on his ship and there was some inspiring mention of Jean Genet, but everything else was a blur of incomprehensible exchanges and some subplot about whether he's really related to his brother.
	www.geocities.com /krylonman/film_reviews/querelle.html (593 words)

	Books (etc) We Like
		Genet's premise is that all male-to-male social interaction--however overtly innocent or benign--is in fact a semi-conscious game of dominance and subordination that leads, under the right set of circumstances, directly towards its secretly-cherished goal of homosexual submission, violence, or, and in extreme or frustrated cases, murder.
		The novel takes place in the anarchic French seaport town of Brest, a liminal space that is itself symbolically semi-conscious: neither quite land or quite sea, its wharfs, dockyards, ramparts and seawalls are perpetually fog-bound; an abandoned penitentiary, the 'ancient prison' of unconsciousness that fetters the all-male population, dominates the landscape.
		Querelle also kills in search of a greater guilt than the one he feels in response to his emotional and sexual longing for other men, and to strike out in some fashion at the thing he most loathes within himself and desires in others.
	bookswelike.net /isbn/0802151574 (2008 words)

	Your Learning Zone :: Querelle
		Querelle is a modern mythic personage; irremediably narcissist; opium dealer and murder, mariner and thief, the best and worst of both worlds.
		Querelle filming was not fortunate, somehow the burden of the song repeated by Jeanne Moreau seemed to mold the general anima state: "All men kill those who love; some of them when are young; some of them when are old; some with passion; some with gold; all men kill those who love."
		But there are some hidden communicant vessels beneath the spirit that would seem to put in march some fatidic and clue devices to establish finally the unexpected ending of a hazardous life who risked and bet, but who inscribed his name in the Cinema with bloody words: Fassbinder.
	www.yourlearningzone.com /store/B00005JXY5/Querelle.html (876 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Querelle (1982)
		Querelle, about a sailor (Bruce Davis) anchored in Brest, is a surrealistic look at a young man discovering his sexuality.
		And there is a scene where Querelle and Robert have a knife fight in the street that is absolutely stunning.
		Querelle is missing a necessary humor that would lift the film in ways that the cinematography and intelligent symbolism cannot.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1399 (1093 words)

	Querelle
		However, after implicating Gil, Querelle's already nascent enthusiasm for gay intercourse grows into something like homosexual love, as he feels powerfully—and, it should be said, reciprocally—drawn to the man he has damned.
		He also tropes repeatedly on the theme of displacement: the context of sailors in an unfamiliar port; the transferrence of Querelle's hate-love for his brother onto the identical-looking Gil; the bevy of scenes in which the camera and the soundtrack renounce a direct involvement within an event in favor of an onlooker's point of view.
		She knows that she is only the vehicle for other men's relationships; Querelle sleeps with her to avenge himself on his brother, her lover, and so on.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /querelle.html (832 words)

	Sony Pictures - DVD & PSP
		QUERELLE is the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final film.
		Querelle turns on his drug-smuggling partner and murders him.
		But, by now, Querelle has become vulnerable and soft and, soon, the once-powerful object of passion comes to belong to Seblon.
	www.sonypictures.com /homevideo/catalog/catalogDetail_DVD043396067455.html?ID=DVD043396067455 (158 words)

	Info and facts on 'Querelle' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The plot centers around the handsome sailor Querelle (Brad Davis (additional info and facts about Brad Davis)), who is also a thief and murderer and has hidden his booty all over the world.
		Querelle, who had been smuggling drugs, murders his accomplice Vic in an act that is the typical blend of homosexuality (A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex) and violence so prevalent in Genet's work.
		In parallel there is a plot line about Lieutenant Seblon (Franco Nero (additional info and facts about Franco Nero)), who is in love with Querelle, and constantly tries to prove his manliness to Querelle.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/q/qu/querelle.htm (273 words)

	querelle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		I was astonished at the power that Querelle held over all of the other characters in the film.
		Querelle does not love the men that he fucks, nor do they love him (Nono and Mario), even Nono claims that its just sex, it won’t take too long.
		As the only woman in the film, she acts as wife, lover, sister and mother to many of the men in the cast.
	members.aol.com /mediatheory/www/querelle.html (305 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Querelle
		Querelle himself soon arrives, and the brothers enact a bizarre greeting halfway between a hug and a wrestling match.
		Querelle, it seems, is looking for partners in a drug deal; Robert points him in the right direction.
		Querelle soon crashes his hideout, and an intense bond develops between the two murderers -- a friendship that will lead Querelle to the greatest love, and the greatest treachery, of his life.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/28119/plot.jhtml (427 words)

	Querelle
		I would recommend starting with 'Querelle' - it is a nice introduction to Genet's work and is perhaps the easiest of all his books to get into.
		Still, a great work is a great work, and I think this is at least a very good one.
		I think "Querelle" is an important work, which is why I give it 4 stars despite my misgivings.
	www.hilaryking.net /shop/us/0802151574.html (798 words)

	Drowned in Sound - Reviews - Album - Querelle
		The trio have been mainstays on London's indie circuit for as long as I can remember, but the time spent shuffling from one piss-stinking dive to the next has proved to be well spent, as the opening brace of 'Shanty Town' and 'Sore' are worth the cost of this EP alone.
		The former is an unusually gentle and delightfully melodic introduction to a band renowned for their unbridled sonic exuberance, live at least.
		Querelle are certainly one of the best acts you'll see playing at the moment, and the beauty of it is you'll probably be able to see them for next to nothing in really intimate venues.
	www.drownedinsound.com /articles/12620.html (323 words)

	Querelle - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
		Querelle, recommended by the same friend, onto the latter heap.
		Querelle is populated with characters who never say what they mean, often because they refuse to admit even to themselves what they really mean.
		I found Querelle sorely lacking in anything resembling dramatic tension.
	feedmyego.com /movies/Q/Querelle1982.html (284 words)

	new noise
		With many bands, this would have been an annoying wait; for Querelle fans, and one would assume the band as themselves, this has been a period of interminable frustration.
		Part of the reason for this delay could be put down to teething issues; “We split up after a bunch of gigs as we were about to kill each other and we could not play our songs without bursting into tears.
		From the opening cyclical riff of 'Shanty Town', to the closing refrain of 'Diverging', it's clear that this record is exactly as it should be.
	www.new-noise.net /now_153.html (387 words)

	London Basque Society - Euskal Elkartea :: Basque Cinema & Other Films: Querelle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Brimming with often graphic gay imagery and themes, it tells the story of Querelle (Brad Davis, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS), a sexually swaggering sailor and drug trafficker on a pass in the port of Brest in pursuit of sexual gratification.
		In a brothel, he is reunited with his brother Robert and makes the acquaintance of Robert's lover Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau) and her brooding husband Nono.
		Querelle later mysteriously murders another man, pinning the blame on known homosexual Gil.
	www.zintzilik.org /london/kultura/basque_cinema_querelle.php (273 words)

	Querelle (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Plot Summary: French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse.
		When reading Genet, the thought that his books are no good for screen adaptation will frequently occur.
		Fassbinder's "Querelle" might be able to prove otherwise.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0084565 (217 words)

	Querelle by Jean Genet
		They mark territory, strut for each other, tease, bluff, mock and intimidate who they can, and, though infrequently allowing their 'violent emotion' and 'metaphysical hatred' to break into consciousness, satisfy their sexual urges with one another through displacement, sublimation, intoxication, extortion, coercion, or, in Querelle's case, serial murder.
		Like the cast of characters in Querelle, all they need is a pretext, a little shrewd knowledge of psychological game playing, and a quick tongue to obtain their ends.
		Querelle de Brest is greatly slanted in favor of homosexuality, but beneath its surprisingly warm, human surface a paean to bisexuality--the natural key that could free men from the trap of their ensnarement and allow for emotional love among men as well as sexual freedom--can be sensed.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Querelle-0802151574.htm (1783 words)

	Rainer Weiner Fassbinder - Querelle \| Movie (1982)
		His attempt to put the mystical homosexual world of French writer Jean Genet ultimately fails because Genet's rich prose is nigh impossible to capture on celluloid but Fassbinder's attempt is sometimes fascinating, sometimes tedious in about equal measure.
		There is curiousity value in this strange tale of a young sailor, Querelle, who fascinates all who come into contact with him but who seems more absorbed in himself.
		Querelle, played with a sort of dreamlike intensity by the late Brad Davis, is soon mixed up in this strange world.
	www.leninimports.com /fassbinder_querelle.html (159 words)

	Jim's Reviews - Querelle
		Lysiane is madly in love with Querelle, but takes his brother Robert (Hanno Pöschl) as a substitute.
		Later, Querelle falls in love with a fellow murderer, Gil, who bears an uncanny resemblance to his brother (both Robert and Gil are played by Hanno Pöschl).
		Querelle's increasing passion for Gil, the first man he has loved, panics him, so he betrays him to the police.
	jclarkmedia.com /fassbinder/fassbinder41.html (1546 words)

	Amazon.ca: Querelle: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Meeting Querelle through these pages is like meeting a seducing demon.
		Querelle is s fiendish mirror for human frailties, vanities, faults and weaknesses.
		His peace is in full submission, his irony: those around are desparate to be possesed and dominated by him.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0802151574/medfools01-20 (1268 words)

	Drowned in Sound - Listings - Artists - Querelle
		Querelle are an Italian trio who sculpt beautiful post-rock out of their tiny undernourished buzzing hearts.
		Described as a cross between The Lapse, Blonde Redhead and Unwound, they have been creating somewhat of a reputation with their live shows, holding their own with the likes of Life Without Buildings, Kaito, Reynolds, Degrassi and The Dudley Corporation.
		"Querelle leave newcomers shell-shocked with their explosive post punk, a cross between The Lapse, Sonic Youth and Unwound.
	www.drownedinsound.com /bands/1510.html (307 words)

	Querelle
		In this sense, cinematography need not only be used to 'record reality' but it can also create and shape a reality which through photography will have a realistic image.
		Interestingly, Sirk has been a major influencen on Fassbinder in terms of melodrama, and QUERELLE is virtually a direct hommage to the baroque style, coding of colour and shape, and themes of impotency and homoeroticism in WRITTEN ON THE WIND.
		The concept of a 'scene' in mise en scene is extremely important, because it accents once again the relationship between theatre and film, between the stage and the set.
	www.philipbrophy.com /projects/mma/Querelle.html (931 words)

	Drowned in Sound - Features - Opinion - The Toilet Circuit Diaries #1: Keane, Querelle, The Cunts...
		She is cool as fuck, as is singer Gypsy and errrr whatever the bassist’s name is (sorry).
		They play the one that goes “don’t trust the DJ” (which I presume is called ‘Don’t Trust the DJ’), which is a belter of a tune, then I’m too tired to stick it out with The Kids and retire to the bar, before trundling off to the tube.
		Re: The Toilet Circuit Diaries #1: Keane, Querelle, The Cunts...
	www.drownedinsound.com /articles/6796.html (903 words)

	Track Down A Print Of Querelle Grey By Andy Warhol
		Querelle Grey by Andy Warhol is $65.95, SALE priced at First Art Source.
		Querelle, Grey (Rare Poster) by Andy Warhol high quality art print / poster delivered free, plus art prints and posters by hundreds more famous artists and a wide selection of picture frames.
		Recently I have got Querelle Grey, it is very pretty...
	www.findartnow.com /warhol/Querelle-Grey.htm (459 words)

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