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Genet does not use dialogue in his film, but focuses instead on close-ups of bodies, on faces, armpits and penises. The film is also rich in symbolism, and the entire narrative may be read as symbolic of the desire for consummation of love between two persons, realised in part through the voyeuristic and sadistic intervention of a third.
- Jean Genet
- Nico Papatakis
- Jean Genet
- Java, André Reybaz
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
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.
Mar 26, 2013 · One of the leading French writers of the second half of the 20th century—he wrote the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, and The Maids, and novels like Querelle, The Thief’s Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers —he essentially made only the short film Un Chant d’amour (A Song of Love).
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 Un chant d'amour vers 1949 - 1950. Jean Genet (1910, France - 1988, France ... Un chant d'amour. Creation date vers 1949 - 1950. With
Mar 28, 2021 · March 28, 2021 / Erotic. Un chant d’amour (1950) 3.6. ( 21) 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.
