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Posted May. 14, 2007, 8:00 a.m. ET
Querelle at BAM!
By Dennis Dermody
Check out the tribute to Jean Genet, a festival at BAM (from May 14-22), which celebrates the films inspired by the notorious French writer, renegade, criminal and homosexual. Genet's own homoerotic 1950 prison film Un Chant D'Amour will screen, plus Todd Haynes's amazing 1999 award-winner Poison and Tony Richardson's 1966 Mademoiselle. And on Tuesday, May 15th, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's ultra-stylized, misunderstood, brilliant, final film Querelle (1982), starring Brad Davis as a gay French sailor and co-starring Jeanne Moreau, who in this clip from the film sings: "Each man kills the thing he loves..."
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I loved Querelle .......speaking as a straight man I could not help but be fascinated by the homosexual underworld which Fassbinder portrayed so well....and made seem so chic ....if I were gay Brad davis would definetly be my choice of man ...and david bowie as well of course
Posted at 8:48 p.m. ET on May 14, 2007 by randy focazio
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