A Love Song

Direct from Brazil with English subtitles, an international poetic-erotic ode through the eyes of Jean Genet, in which two prisoners, a middle-aged man and an eighty-year-old man, each one in their own cell, wander in lustful dreams, creating the image of the other, feeding their joys and more intimate ghosts.

A Love Song is inspired by the only film by French writer and playwright Jean Genet (1910-1986), “Un chant d’amour”.
Genet’s short film tells the story of a love affair between two inmates. Because of its homoerotic content, the film provoked controversy and censorship at the time of release.

Genet, known as the “poet of the criminals”, is the author of works such as “The Maids” and “Querelle of Brest” (later filmed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder). Sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of death, he obtained a pardon in 1948 thanks to the efforts of Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Cocteau.