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Querelle [1982]
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Quite an experience...
Review date: 2008-10-28 Rating: 4 out of 10
Well, my first Fassbinder movie was "Martha", and I fell for the moment when she first sees her husband-to-be and camera makes a circle - as all her world went around. Great. I then was in Russia and this was not possible to purchase Fassbinder. Unquestionably, as soon as I got to the UK, I was looking forward to enjoy brilliants of western culture, and Fassbinder's cinema too. So I simply purchased 3 films in a row from Amazon.co.uk (I sailed through Fassbinder's websites to work out which are better start with): Merchant of 4 seasons, Querelle, A year with 13 moon...
"Merchant..." made me feel strange. My rule is if I feel strange I give it another look after a while. A year with 13 Moon was not disappointing, but you should better have an artistic background as myself to watch it. Then Querelle. Well, I am OK with orange color, and there is something about the conception - the never-ending-sunset etc. Nero+Moro's names also make me feel a bit FOR it. BUT... Imagine for a second when after a long and busy day at one of the best UK universities I am coming back to my lovely country-side house looking forward to have a nice dinner in front of TV watching a mysterious Fassbinder' masterpiece (as one of reviewers wrote above). I was about to test a wonderful sandwich when infront of my eyes Querelle lost his virginity to ugly hairy fat jerk - a gay(ish) husband of Moro's character. Very realistically done, with saliva and hairy armpits. With that orange never-ending-sunset background it looked 1000 times worse than when written here. Yeah, there is a style, and flashing of talent, and findings... BUT still. Sometimes all great artists need to try something new. Sometimes they try too hard. This was just a case. Unwatchable.
P.S. What I did to the movie? I put it on sale here on Amazon.co.uk with advert: "Fassbinder' final masterpiece". It was sold in a couple of days. Now I think those 2 people who wrote 5 stars reviews above probably also desperately wanted to sell it back.
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A Warning to the Curious
Review date: 2007-03-29 Rating: 2 out of 10
You know that saying about bad movies being train wrecks? Well, this
isn't just a train wreck...this is the Godzilla sequel to the mother of
all train wrecks.
Ohhhhhh, this film plays like an improv sketch of an art-house film
written by lobotomised baboons.
Unwatchable. Really. And orange. With half-naked oiled-up actors and
enormous phallic mooring posts. Well, not so much phallic as phallus...
What on earth Franco Nero and Jeanne Moreau thought they were doing agreeing to take part in this septic tank of a film is quite beyond me.
Truly, the worst movie I have ever tried to watch. I suspect I won't try the book either!
Flawed masterpiece
Review date: 2007-02-04 Rating: 10 out of 10
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!
Fassbinders final
Review date: 2002-07-27 Rating: 10 out of 10
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.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Franco Nero
Jeanne Moreau
Hanno Pöschl
Laurent Malet
Brad Davis
Creators:
Brad Davis (Primary Contributor)
Franco Nero (Primary Contributor)
Burkhard Driest (Writer)
Dieter Schidor (Producer)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Writer)
Christian Zertz (Producer)
Daniel Toscan du Plantier (Producer)
Michael Fengler (Producer)
Jean Genet (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Second Sight Films Ltd.
Manufacturer: Second Sight Films Ltd.
EAN: 5028836030324
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2002-01-21
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Running time: 104 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1982-09-08
Language: English (Original Language)