And for this afternoon, I thought I would focus attention on the 1982 movie, Querelle.
This movie is an incomprehensible messed based on French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle de Brest. It starred the late actor Brad Davis as Querelle, a bisexual sailor who is also a thief and murderer, and his adventures in a whorehouse. The whorehouse is owned by a woman, Lysiane, whose husband, Nono likes to play dice with strangers. If the stranger wins, he can have sex with Lysiane. If he loses, Nono gets to have sex with the stranger.
Needless to say Querelle loses on purpose and in a disturbing scene, is sodomized by Nono.
If you asked me anything else about this movie, I couldn't tell you because it's a mess, but with one saving grace.
The actress who played Lysiane is internationally famous Jeanne Moreau and she is stunning. I had only seen her in one film before this one. After this one, she became one of my favorite actresses:
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I first fell in lust with Davis in "Midnight Express." I was just a teenager, but that amazing body and those chiseled features. Such a loss. And yes, "Querelle" is a mess, but I've sat it through more than once, just to stare at Brad in the tiny t-shirt...
ReplyDelete"Yet each man kills the thing he loves" is, as most readers will know, from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Wilde.
ReplyDeleteAs for Querelle de Brest, I read it a few decades ago, and then went on to Our Lady of the Flowers and one or two other Genet novels, but I'm afraid I struggled.