Based on a story by Jean Genet, the final film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder is many things: a surreal fever dream of subversive eroticism; a tribute to the beauty of its late star, Brad Davis; and an iconic piece of design which inspired the nautical look of Jean Paul Gaultier’s 80s collections. Moreau plays a brothel madam caught up in the violent sexual awakening of Davis’ naive young sailor.