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Ratio: 2.35:1
Audio: Stereo
Ratio: 2.35:1
Audio: Stereo
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), WIDESCREEN, SYNOPSIS: French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband : if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane, if you lose, you have to make love with Nono... Querelle loses on purpose...
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Flawed masterpiece,
By PM "polmac" (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Querelle [DVD] (DVD)
Fassbinder's last film is based on what would seem to be an unfilmable 'Querelle de Brest', by Jean Genet. It looks wonderful: lush orange sunsets, sailors, workmen, prostitues, policemen, phallic imagery. Brad Davis is stunning as the amoral, beautiful sailor. The plot and the dialogue are patchy and enigmatic, confusing at times, like a dream, bizarre at times, like a fantasy, but the sumptuousness of the whole spectacle carries the viewer along and the film contains some of the most erotic scenes in cinema. Gunther Kaufmann is wonderful as the pimp Nono, against whom all men who visit his brothel must play a game of dice: if the man wins, he gets to have sex with Nono's wife, if he loses, he must let Nono shag him; Querelle loses on purpose, not because he is gay, but in order to go beyond the bounds of experience and morality. The music by Peer Raben is mesmerising and haunting. Although a difficult and flawed film, it is a landmark in modern cinema. Fassbinder must have had a great time directing it. Apparently there is a more explicit cut of this movie. Please release it!
40 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fassbinders final,
By HDR (Sweden) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Querelle [DVD] (DVD)
This was Fassbinders last film before he passed away and it may be one of his best.Unfortinality this is not a great DVD-realese of the movie. The transfer is not anamorphic but it's in widescreen aspect 2.35:1, there are no subtitles avaible. The region 1 realese is in anamorphic widescreen and does have subtitles in some laungagues, like english for hearing impacts. The sound describes as dolby digital 2.0 but it sound more like mono to me, but it probably the original sound. It's a shame this realese is so bad because it's however a great movie.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
SEE YOU LATER SAILOR.....,
By mister joe "mister joe" (Herts) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Querelle [DVD] (DVD)
This movie had the same effect on me as sea sickness,i felt nausea,cold sweats and a gross queasiness.Sometime's a movie will be a cult because it is unpopular and badly executed...hello Querelle.This film is AWFUL.Shot in a gross,tangerine light,a wobbly studio stage and worse of all a boss eyed confused Brad Davis.Davis was the ONLY reason i wanted to see this film,in the realms of forgotten talent and a star that could've been Brad Davis possibly wore the crown.His performance in Midnight Express is flawless,he had that Brando quality of being macho and sensitive,that unquantifiable charisma.Sadly the fame went to Davis's head,he obliterated himself with drugs,destroyed his career,alienating Hollywood until he was kinda discarded.By the time he sorted himself out he only did tv movie stuff,never really achieving what he could have then worse becoming almost a leper in Hollywood because he discovered he was ill with Aids...this was pre Philadephia before Tom Hanks taught everyone that you cannot contact Aids by touching someones hand or drinking from the same champagne flute.Actually instead of buying Querelle buy After Midnight a sort of biography of Davis wriiten by his wife.Davis had a horribly complex early life,put it this way i think his Mum made him "sleep" in the same bed.Oh yeah...the film.The acting is cardboard cut out,afternoon american soap sensuality,ridicolous ham fights,ugly foreigners and a current of planet sized pretension.I mean the story is actually alright about this shifty,amoral,morally corrupt sailor but it all falls flat in incredibly naff style over substance.The latent homoeroticism is presented sordidly,one particular scene had me wrenching.Another reviewer comments on the "eroticism".Hmmmm....it has all the erotic qualitys of two dogs fornicating down the park tongues flailing,legs jittering.Horrible.As a viewer you DO NOT CARE ONE IOTA about these flat,nasty characters.For Davis while i commend his spirit this movie might have well been called "How To Kill Your Career In Hollywood.Part One".It is one of the biggest examples in my memory of career suicide.Brad Davis,bless him kind of looks bemused wondering around the phallic sound stages.Obviously there are those masochistic Art Movie buffs who will think this bad breath of a film is a "flawed" masterpiece.NO.Just an awful,awful,awful movie.Bad.
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