Packet 6: Tossup 5

The film Little Girl Blue exposes this author’s abuse of Mona Achache’s (“ah-SHASH’s”) mother Carole. In March 2024, the box art for a Criterion edition of an adaptation of a novel by this author was criticized for resembling AI-generated (15[1])art. Two plays by this author (15[1])inspired Todd Haynes’s film Poison. In Benedict Andrews’s (15[1])2014 Lincoln Center (15[1])staging of a play by this author, on-stage cameras (15[1])filmed a live feed of Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert (“oo-PAIR”) trying on (-5[1])Alexander McQueen dresses. (15[2])In this author’s only film, two prisoners fantasize of frolicking (15[1])in the countryside together and (*) blow smoke into each others’ mouths. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film was an adaptation (10[1])of a novel by this director of Un Chant d’Amour (“un shawn dah-MOOR”) about the sailor Querelle (“kuh-REL”). This author’s debut novel, which he wrote in prison, inspired John Waters to give the star of Pink Flamingos the nickname “Divine.” For 10 points, name (-5[1])this French (10[1])author of Our Lady of the Flowers and The Maids. ■END■ (10[4])

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