‘Querelle,’ celebrated art house film about bisexual serial killer sailor, screens in Ybor City on Friday

In 1947’s “Querelle of Brest,” French author Jean Genet spins one hell of a tale about a bisexual sailor, prostitute and serial killer who loves power more than anything else. Thirty-five years after the book was published, arthouse cinema hero Rainer Werner Fassbinder immortalized it in film with an English-language film that ended up being his last movie.

Late French actress Jeanne Moreau is surrounded by dudes as far as the cast goes (including hunky Brad Davis, pictured, and Franco Nero), and “Querelle” became one of the first gay films to sell more than 100,000 tickets in its first three weeks of release.

Lauded for the saturation of color, towers of cock and what Hyperreal Film Club described as characters like “sex-soaked degenerate gamblers, bawdy graffiti scrawlers, and glory hole gobblers,” the 106-minute film is an LGBTQ classic and screening just once in Ybor City this weekend.

Tickets to see “Querelle” on Friday, June 2 at Screendoor Microcinema in Ybor City are still available for. $8.
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