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Song of Love is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean Genet with André Reybaz

Song of Love (1972)

Un chant d'amour

Song of Love
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Length 25minutes
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Erotic,    Fantasy,    Romance
Rating74% 3.740383.740383.740383.740383.74038

Un chant d'amour [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.

Synopsis

The plot is set in a French prison, where a prison guard takes voyeuristic pleasure in observing the prisoners perform masturbatory sexual acts. In two adjacent cells, there is an older Algerian-looking man and a handsome convict in his twenties. The older man is in love with the younger one, rubbing himself against the wall and sharing his cigarette smoke with his beloved through a straw.

Actors

André Reybaz

(Guard (uncredited))Jean Genet

(Prisoner in Duo Fantasy (uncredited))
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