Monday, 29 June 2015

Through a hole

A Song of Love (1950)

Directed Jean Genet this film stars Java, Coco Le Martiniquais and Lucien Senemaud. Two French prisoners attempt to build a relationship while being spied on by a guard.

Eschewing dialogue this film communicates it's strange love story purely through image and does a good job doing so. Even now some of the content would be considered explicit and while the plot is not overly developed it does show an unusual relationship in an interesting way. The skill of the film is in the execution which manages to communicate so much through so little.


4/5  

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