A Song of Love (1950)
- Original title
- Un chant d’amour
- Directed by
- Jean Genet
- Genre
- silent film, experimental film, romance film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 26 min
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 111 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A silent 1950 French film tells a story about a prisoner and a guard who share a forbidden attraction. Through poetic imagery and gestures it explores desire and loneliness within a repressive setting.
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What happens
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. The film first screened publicly in 1954 with the sexually explicit scenes expurgated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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