Un Chant d’Amour has long been a Holy Grail for fans of both queer and experimental cinema, capturing the controversial nexus of the two much like Kenneth Anger’s more lauded Fireworks. The film was ...

Un Chant D'Amour looked scandalous in 1950, and it's hardly tame today. It's a sweaty, impressionistic silent film that, for just over 20 minutes, uses a crude scenario—a jailor peeking in on his ...

The only film (1950) by the great writer Jean Genet. Silent and wordless, it poetically and delicately recapitulates some of the themes of his novels—specifically the erotic encounters between two men ...