Fassbinder's most deeply empathetic work - in which he takes the pain of his lover's suicide, and through it is able to reach a specific emotional experience that could just as easily be foreign to him. perhaps the most explicitly personal stamp on this film is the use of Fassbinder's episode on the German interview show Life Stories, where he shows footage of himself being interviewed on how he believes he's "always failing" in relationships and other such questions. This…

the majority of Fassbinder's work is somewhat cynical about love - both heterosexual and otherwise - and while Querelle is certainly not a straightforward, optimistic love story, there's a degree of tenderness to the film that's somewhat lacking in other Fassbinder films, as we watch Querelle go from being purely an object of sexual desire to somebody who is able to love others and to accept love from others. while the film is perhaps Fassbinder's most explicitly homosexual, the hardship…