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Love Song

UN CHANT D’AMOUR

France, 1950
Director: Jean Genet

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Review by Mark Simpson 

I had already won­dered what would become of the meet­ing of a hand­some young guard and a hand­some young crim­i­nal,” wrote Jean Genet in his 1943 debut prison novel, Our Lady of the Flow­ers, penned while he was him­self serv­ing a life sen­tence as a per­sis­tent petty crim­i­nal, one that would only end when he received a State Par­don arranged by Jean Cocteau’s lawyer. “I took delight in the fol­low­ing two images: a bloody and moral shock, or a sparkling embrace in a riot of spunk and panting…”.

Well, you would Jean.…

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