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Un chant d'amour (French pronunciation: [œ̃ ʃɑ̃ damuʁ]; English: A Song of Love) 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.
Genet’s novels are determined by and describe imprisonment; so, of course, is Un Chant d’amour, which reveals the prison’s structure of exploitation through the pinning down of the prisoners and of their isolated masturbation for the warder’s intrusive eye.
- Jane Giles
Petty criminal, outlaw writer, political radical, gay icon, the name Jean Genet means many things to many people, but filmmaker isn’t usually one of them. Yet Genet did direct a short film, A Song of Love (Un chant d’amour), in 1950.
With the mocking surrealism of Luis Buñuel and dark poetry of Jean Cocteau, it is as much a condemnation of middle class values (particularly contemporary society's harsh attitudes towards homosexuality) as it is a celebration of sexual desire and a reflection of Genet's grim existentialist outlook.
- Jean Genet
Jean Genet (1910, France - 1988, France) Main title Un chant d'amour. Creation date vers 1949 - 1950. With
Apr 24, 2019 · Un chant d’amour is the only film directed by the notorious multi-hyphenate, known as much for his begrimed, criminal past—he was an orphan raised in juvenile detention centers who grew up to become a petty thief and prostitute—as for the actual content of his novels, plays, essays, and poetry.
Mar 26, 2013 · Jean Genet’s A Song of Love and Jean Cocteau’s Testament of Orpheus. Posted by Charles Silver, Curator, Department of Film. Testament of Orpheus. 1960. France. Directed by Jean Cocteau. These notes accompany screenings of Jean Genet’s A Song of Love and Claude Chabrol’s Testament of Orpheus on March 27, 28, and 29 in Theater 2.
