WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: In 1950, author Jean Genet (with, it is speculated, filmmaker Jean Cocteau) created a 25-minute silent erotic film about the love affair between two male prisoners that flourishes despite both the separation of a wall and one prisoner's abuse by a covetous guard. Widely banned for years after its release, the film's dreamlike imagery still holds some provocative surprises for modern audiences as well as meditations on freedom and captivity, the need for human contact, and the phenomenon of being both the possessor and object of male desire.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: The film can be watched (by adult audiences) online at UbuWeb (http://www.ubuweb.com/film/genet_chant.html).
Un Chant D'Amour (1950) - Classic Erotic M/M Short Film
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: In 1950, author Jean Genet (with, it is speculated, filmmaker Jean Cocteau) created a 25-minute silent erotic film about the love affair between two male prisoners that flourishes despite both the separation of a wall and one prisoner's abuse by a covetous guard. Widely banned for years after its release, the film's dreamlike imagery still holds some provocative surprises for modern audiences as well as meditations on freedom and captivity, the need for human contact, and the phenomenon of being both the possessor and object of male desire.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: The film can be watched (by adult audiences) online at UbuWeb (http://www.ubuweb.com/film/genet_chant.html).