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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.
Jan 15, 2015 · Facendo una rapida ricerca mi sono reso conto che la poesia Un canto d'amore di Jean Genet non è disponibile (quantomeno in lingua italiana) in rete. Vi propongo dunque la traduzione di Giancarlo Pavanello (tratta dall'edizione Guanda delle Poesie di Genet).
Yet Genet did direct a short film, A Song of Love ( Un chant d’amour ), in 1950. Silent and shot in grainy black and white, the film presents a passionate relationship between inmates, separated from each other by the prison walls. The prisoners express their estranged desire for each other in increasingly sensu ...
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The cell wall in Un Chant d’amour is inscribed with the convicts’ frustration and desire, and becomes the site of extraordinary eroticism. At one point the older prisoner gently kisses the cell wall between himself and the young murderer; or, in Genet’s words from Notre-Dame des Fleurs, “He puts his cheek to the wall.
- Jane Giles
Mar 28, 2021 · Un chant d’amour (1950) Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication. Director: Jean Genet. Writer: Jean Genet. Stars: Bravo (uncredited), Jean Genet (uncredited), Java (uncredited), Coco Le Martiniquais (uncredited), André ...
Despite its chequered history and reputation as pornography for the gay intelligentsia, Un chant d'amour is arguably Genet's most evocative and haunting work. His only film, it is easily on a par with his celebrated literary works, such as Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs and Querelle de Brest. With the mocking surrealism of Luis Buñuel and dark poetry ...
More often discussed than actually seen, Un chant d'amour (translation: A Song of Love) is a fairly tough sit for those not already disposed to avant garde filmmaking; even more challenging is the lack of a soundtrack. While some critics came up with elabroate symbolic explanations for the film's silence, the truth is it's a bit of a slog ...
