Querelle (1982)

 

A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.

From memory: Fassbinder's last movie is a deliberately nefarious study of homoerotic sensibilities. a quite accurate adaptation of Genet's novel and a sum of the director's artistry: slow-paced, atmospheric, technically brilliant production design with expressionistic lighting and artificial stage settings and quite bleak.

Halliwell (no star): "Overheated fantasy which may have something to say to gays, but not much to other audiences."

Maltin BOMB: "Fassbinder's final film was rejected even by his admirers; gamy but slickly produced adaptation of Jean Genet novel induces boredom and giggles in equal measure." 

Violette (2013)

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives.

Strong period biodrama with an excellent ensemble, especially Emmanuelle Devos in the title role credibly portraying the troubled, but talented author.