Comments on: Un chant d’amour (1950)

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 11 May 2025 07:52:04 +0000

In reply to Barton Young. I’d love to see a show in a dark cinema someday!

By: GREGORY

GREGORY — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:50:54 +0000

Just to clarify: that film package to which I was referring was the Genet/Anger/Cocteau. Glad to hear it was screened with QUERELLE which was quite the shock-the-bourgeoise event in the 1980s upon its release. Two thirds of the audience whom I suspect had come to see a Brad Davis film left within the first 15 minutes.

By: GREGORY

GREGORY — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:28:07 +0000

Aha, Barton — just saw your comment. That was the general package release of those films back in the late ’60s through the 1970s even in avant garde film venues. I don’t think most American distributors knew quite what to do with the Genet outside of showing it in porn houses with SONG OF THE LOON.

By: Jay1Hi5

Jay1Hi5 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 06:37:07 +0000

Never seen this film before but I thought it was pretty good. Reminds me of the film Bent.

By: Gerald L. Austin

Gerald L. Austin — Mon, 30 May 2022 23:07:58 +0000

I first saw this on YouTube Several years ago. I don’t remember seeing some scenes. There were some quick glimpses of the nudity that I look for. The scene with them outside and the fellow starting to ‘explore’ the other man wa a real tease! It was definitely an erotic movie.

By: Barton Young

Barton Young — Sat, 15 May 2021 09:57:35 +0000

In reply to GREGORY. Gregory, that's the exact double bill I saw it in@

By: GREGORY

GREGORY — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 23:11:31 +0000

Interesting curiosity. I remember seeing it in 1973 billed with Kenneth Anger’s SCORPIO RISING, FIREWORKS and Jean Cocteau’s BLOOD OF A POET.
It was shown at my university by its in-house Company Cinematheque complete with random pot-smoking in the audience and beer bottles rolled down the graded aisles.
I loved its straightforward outre (for its time) explicitness coupled with its reach for Art.
Would be great double-billed alongside Fassbinder’s genius psychedelic adaptation of Genet’s QUERELLE, a homoerotic classic in its own right.
Thanks for adding this!

By: Veit Harlan

Veit Harlan — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 21:49:44 +0000

Terrible. Guess I expected something like Jean Cocteau. At least I wasn’t shocked, as I probably would have been, watching it in the 50s. Not sure what that says about our times, though.