Jean Genet

Serva e Padrona (2003)

Three young women at home, the eye of the camera doesn't leave them for a moment and shows them first in a narrow kitchen, then in a small bathroom in front of a mirror, then in a bare living room where they spend part of the evening. The three are the mis ...

Genet à Chatila (1999)

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Genet visits the camp. Suffering from throat cancer and having written n ...

Un boxeur endormi (1993)

A sleeping boxer on a train dreams of a victorious fight. Inspired by a lost poem by Jean Genet. ...

Le sphinx (1986)

Fragments of a text by Jean Genet – "Four Hours in Chatila" – are illustrated by summer images of a park in Brussels. The contrast between what is seen and what is said attempts to stop, to break the flow of information which tends to neutralize horror ...

Querelle (1982)

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was. ...

Black Mirror (1981)

A downbeat story of life inside a women's prison. There is more crime inside than out. When the inmates see that a woman is soon to be admitted for killing a young boy, they begin to plan her murder. ...

Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète (1975)

Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet. ...

Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)

A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a cocksure, volatile country singer. ...

The Maids (1975)

A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her. ...

Song of Love (1972)

Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication. ...

Condemned and Possessed (1967)

Non-professional players try to create the poetic world of Jean Genet in filmic terms. ...

Mademoiselle (1966)

A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes. ...

Deathwatch (1966)

Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict. ...

The Balcony (1963)

The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. ...

Little Girl Blue (2023)

In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her dis ...

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer (2019)

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow. Overwhelmed by the weight of power. The numerous exploits of André Malraux (1901-1976). ...

Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (1982)

Song of Love (1972)

Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication. ...

Mayday (1970)

In the spring of 1970, thousands of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of suspected FBI informant Alex Rackley. Led by radical luminaries Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Tom Hayden, th ...

Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy (1970)

In the aftermath of the arrest of Angela Davis, Jean Genet reads a text denouncing racist US policy, supporting the Black Panthers party and Angela Davis for a television show that will be completely censored. ...

Chicago (1968)

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A striking documentary shot cinema verite style of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with contrasting film and audio inside the convention center and the protests outsi ...

Disorder (1950)

Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946. ...