Un Chant D’Amour (1950) by Jean Genet
Sunday, May 21, 1989, 8:00 pm
ILLICIT FANTASIES: NOIRS
By Jean Genet and R.W. Fassbinder
Two films which brazenly enact sexual and socially anarchic fantasies. Jean Genet’s classic but little-seen Un Chant D’Amour (1950) is a pained and moving idyll to homosexual love set in an imaginary prison where each participant is hopelessly isolated; Fassbinder’s more narrative but still unconventional Gods of the Plague (1969) is one of his earliest films, a noir-lit story of two sleazy gangsters, their pitiable attempts to rise in life, and their eventual end bleeding to death in a supermarket.