1982’s Querelle — adapted from Jean Genet’s 1947 novel Querelle de Brest — starred Brad Davis as the infamous homme fatale Georges Querelle, a lascivious Belgian sailor who sleeps, steals and murders his way through Brest, France while there on shore leave.
It’s like On the Town without the songs and if Gene Kelley and Frank Sinatra just gave into their passions and called it a gay. Querelle remains a classic today not only in the queer cinematic canon but as director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film.
Harper’s Bazaar China took a page and a still from Querelle for a stunning editorial shot by Feng Hai and styled by Wei Yang with model Tarik Lakehal slipping into the seaman’s high-waisted pants.
I could’ve used some more man-on-man action, but when can’t I? Check out more photos from the shoot at The Fashionisto.
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Kangol
Meh. This could be a standard issue wannabe sailor shoot. I don’t think this fashion director or anyone involved with this shoot has a clue about what Jean Genet’s book Querelle or Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film version really say or focus on.
Sammy Schlipshit
Querelle is a strange, slow moving film that is still a must see.
The style of filming, abstract/intriguing sets, stilted acting and thin plot take a little getting used to.
It’s worth it.
Brad Davis was one of our brothers who also succumbed to AIDS.
jwtraveler
Terrible film. Don’t waste your time.
Mercurical Memo
Querelle was an awesome movie!
SeeingAll
“Querelle” was basically a pretentious piece of tacky junk, but Brad Davis sure looked good.
MarionPaige
the anticipation for the movie “Querelle” was very high back in the day. Excerpts from the book ran in gay adult magazines and everything about “Querelle” seemed very exotic. IN SHORT, the unusual / atypical style of the movie simply added to the perception that “Querelle” was some unique explicit thing that could only be done (at the time) in Europe.
I could be wrong but this french designer (I think who allegedly designed Madonna’s cone bras) used Querelle inspired imagery for his perfume ads back in the day.
buddy-x
@MarionPaige: In the nineties, Jean Paul Gaultier did indeed design Madonna’s conical bra and took inspiration for his cologne and fashion from this film.