Film Stills Vol. 03 – Un chant d’amour, 1950 — Jean Genet

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Un chant d’amour is French writer Jean Genet’s only film, which he directed in 1950. Because of its explicit (though artistically presented) homosexual content, the 26-minute movie was long banned. The plot is set in a French prison, where a prison guard takes voyeuristic pleasure in observing the prisoners perform masturbatory sexual acts. In two adjacent cells, there is an older Algerian-looking man and a tattooed convict in his twenties. The older man is in love with the younger one, rubbing himself against the wall and sharing his cigarette smoke with his beloved through a straw. The prison guard, apparently jealous of the prisoners’ relationship, enters the older convict’s cell, beats him, and makes him suck on his gun in a sexual fashion. Following this, the inmate drifts off into a fantasy where he and his object of desire roam the countryside. In the final scene, it becomes clear that the guard’s power is no match for the intensity of attraction between the prisoners, even though their relationship is not consummated. Genet does not use dialogue in his film, but focuses instead on close-ups of bodies, on faces, armpits, and, penises.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_chant_d%27amour


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Weight 40 g
City

Publication Date

2017

Language

English, French

Pages

24

Dimensions

148 x 210mm (A5)

Binding

Sewn Bound

Process

Laser

Ink

Monochromatic

Edition Size

30

Extras

Colored Paper, Envelope