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Un chant d'amour / A Song of Love (1950) [Re-UP]

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Date: 11 Aug 2015 12:23:00
Un chant d'amour / A Song of Love (1950) [Re-UP]

Un chant d'amour (1950)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 25:23 | 1,61 Gb
Score AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps + English Commentary track
Genre: Art-house

Director: Jean Genet
Stars: André Reybaz, Java, Coco Le Martiniquais

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.

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Un chant d'amour / A Song of Love (1950) [Re-UP]

Jean Genet (1910-1986), abandoned as a child, lived as a thief, a beggar and a prostitute and started writing while in prison. His novels include Our Lady of the Flowers, The Miracle of the Rose and Querelle of Brest (filmed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 1982) and his plays The Balcony and The Maids (filmed in 1975). The support of French writers and intellectuals such as Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre ensured his literary reputation and helped secure his release from jail. His work was heavily influenced by the cinema, but Un chant d’amour was the only film he directed. Less than half an hour in length and silent, it tells a simple story of three prisoners in solitary confinement and their warder. The prisoners’ desire for each other is expressed in scenes where two of them share a cigarette by blowing smoke through a hole in the wall that separates them. The realistic action gives way to two fantasy episodes: one from the warder, a series of images of male lovemaking, and one from the older prisoner, of him and his lover in the countryside, free from his confinement.

Un chant d'amour / A Song of Love (1950) [Re-UP]

Un chant d’amour has had a huge influence on both gay cinema and experimental cinema – though for many years it was very much an “underground” film, subject to censorship. It was once banned in Los Angeles on grounds of obscenity. In the UK the film was never submitted to the BBFC until 1992 (there’s no doubt that it would have been cut, if not banned outright, not much earlier than this) and for many years could only be shown privately or under club conditions. Watching it now, this is hardly surprising: the film is explicit in its portrayal of gay male desire, showing several scenes of masturbation and containing possibly the earliest images of erect penises seen on a cinema screen. It’s all the more astonishing that this was shot in 35mm by a professional crew, though on the film itself no-one is credited except Genet. The cast is a mixture of Genet boyfriends and lowlife acquaintances from Montmartre. Lucien Sénémaud, who plays the younger prisoner, was Genet’s lover at the time. The actor who plays the older prisoner has never been named, but he was a pimp and barber with a family to support.

Un chant d'amour / A Song of Love (1950) [Re-UP]

As Richard Kwietniowski points out in the commentary, Un chant d’amour may have a considerable reputation and influence as an “experimental” short, but in reality it is nothing of the kind. The story it tells can be easily followed – in the absence of any dialogue, it’s a remarkable piece of visual storytelling – and the fact that it tells a story at all would distinguish it from much of the avant-garde. Using a considerable number of close-ups, Genet makes his film an intensely physical one, exploring the textures of clothing and his actors’ bodies. For some viewers, no doubt, depending on predilection, it will also be a very erotic film, leaving aside its considerable historical importance.

Un chant d'amour / A Song of Love (1950) [Re-UP]

Some will no doubt find a £15.99 RRP excessive for a film which lasts only 25 minutes and will no doubt be of minority appeal. On the other hand, the BFI should be congratulated for producing a well-thought out DVD of a landmark short film. For anyone interested in Genet’s work or in the history of gay cinema in particular, this film is essential viewing.
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Un chant d'amour / A Song of Love (1950) [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Commentary by writer Jane Giles and filmmaker Richard Kwietniowski
- Biographies of Genet and Fisher Turner
- New music score by Simon Fisher Turner

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