Homage to Jean Genet’s antihero and a brilliant reimagining of
the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of
the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice,
passion, and murderous revenge.
As a millworkers’
strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions
start to escalate between the workers—but when a lockout renews
their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic
influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping
and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he walks the picket lines
and at night moves like a mythic Adonis through the ranks of young
men who flock to his apartment for sex. As the dispute hardens and
both sides refuse to yield, sand stalls the gears of the economic
machine and the tinderbox of class struggle and entitlement ignites
in a firestorm of passions carnal and violent. Trenchant social
drama, a tribute to Jean Genet’s antihero, and a brilliant
reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval,
winner of France’s Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative
story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.