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Why this homoerotic classic about sweaty sailors is stirring up controversy 40 years later

thirsty as we have to the announcement that 1982 French-German classic Querelle would be joining Criterion’s ranks this June.Directed by influential, queer West German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder and adapted from Jean Genet’s controversial 1947 novel, Querelle is the story of the eponymous sailor (bisexual actor Brad Davis, who had been in the Oscar-winning Chariots Of Fire the year prior), a man so devastatingly sexy that, when he arrives in the French seaport known as Brest, the entire town descends into a swirl of lust and jealousy.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Impressionistic and deeply erotic (there’s a reason why so much of the architecture in Brest looks incredibly phallic!), Querelle wasn’t entirely understood at the time of its release. Not to mention, its overt embrace of queerness—often entangled with crime and violence—made it quite controversial in the ’80s.But, four decades since its release, Querelle has become a cult favorite, regarded for its artful and uncompromising approach to queerness and gay male sensuality, in particular.
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country consisting of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It borders Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland, Monaco, and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions (five of which are situated overseas) span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.07 million (as of May 2020).
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