Querelle

German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder passed young at 37, and this film described by local film screening homies Hyperreal Film Club as “Tom of Finland meets FANTASIA” was his last release. This pick for HFC’s Movie Night in the Love Suite series follows multi-hyphenate thief/sailor/murderer Georges Querelle as he navigates anal sex, lovers’ quarrels, and brotherly tussles in blood-soaked Brest, France. Based on Jean Genet’s novel Querelle of Brest, the author never saw the film. According to Edmund White’s biography of Genet, his reasoning was thus: “You can’t smoke at the movies.” Same rules apply for Hotel Hyperreal. – James Scott