As part of Cine Style the iconic Querelle at All is Joy
Fassbender’s last film is like a Jean Paul Gautier perfume soaked fever dream.
Stylistically like a sex pulsating ballet set in the port of Brest and bar cum brothel Le Feria …the knife fight could have been choreographed for a Matthew Bourne ballet…
The style energy of Querelle is pistol-whip-you-fully-in-the-face-and-grab-you-by-the-balls! … red sky a night (someone’s dead delight) smoking sound stage lighting … a sea wall that features 8ft high phallus shaped stone sailor leaning totems… costumes so designed and imagery laden that they could be in a Wes Anderson film and characters that include a leather boy policeman, dashing Captain narrator (“oh captain, I’m inexplicably dripping with sweat with no top on whilst you appear to be sweat-free under a dashing cloak all epaulets, frogging and sang froid…
Brad Davies spends much of the film with his top off and Jeanne Moreau’s dance hungry bar-owner’s wife is as insatiable as her dice-rolling husband … Querelle is based on Jean Genet’ novel, which itself was an adaptation inspired by Benjamin Britten’s Opera BIlly Budd, but with the Homo-erotic dial sweatily turned up to 11 …
Just don’t play dice with Feria barman and hungry husband Nono!
7pm: DOORS - DJ
7.30pm: Introduction with Chris McGill (Rebel Reel Cine Club)
8pm: Querelle
DJ until Midnight
Querelle
Dir. Rainer Fassbender 1982
1hr 47 mins
All Is Joy is a private members bar and events space, signing up will get you a temporary membership for this screening as well as your permanent membership of Rebel Reel Cine Club which comes with your ticket.
As part of Cine Style the iconic Querelle at All is Joy
Fassbender’s last film is like a Jean Paul Gautier perfume soaked fever dream.
Stylistically like a sex pulsating ballet set in the port of Brest and bar cum brothel Le Feria …the knife fight could have been choreographed for a Matthew Bourne ballet…
The style energy of Querelle is pistol-whip-you-fully-in-the-face-and-grab-you-by-the-balls! … red sky a night (someone’s dead delight) smoking sound stage lighting … a sea wall that features 8ft high phallus shaped stone sailor leaning totems… costumes so designed and imagery laden that they could be in a Wes Anderson film and characters that include a leather boy policeman, dashing Captain narrator (“oh captain, I’m inexplicably dripping with sweat with no top on whilst you appear to be sweat-free under a dashing cloak all epaulets, frogging and sang froid…
Brad Davies spends much of the film with his top off and Jeanne Moreau’s dance hungry bar-owner’s wife is as insatiable as her dice-rolling husband … Querelle is based on Jean Genet’ novel, which itself was an adaptation inspired by Benjamin Britten’s Opera BIlly Budd, but with the Homo-erotic dial sweatily turned up to 11 …
Just don’t play dice with Feria barman and hungry husband Nono!
7pm: DOORS - DJ
7.30pm: Introduction with Chris McGill (Rebel Reel Cine Club)
8pm: Querelle
DJ until Midnight
Querelle
Dir. Rainer Fassbender 1982
1hr 47 mins
All Is Joy is a private members bar and events space, signing up will get you a temporary membership for this screening as well as your permanent membership of Rebel Reel Cine Club which comes with your ticket.
Doors 6.30pm
DJs 6.30pm to 7.30pm
FIlm 7.30pm
