Journal entry #101!
To continue the 'unintelligible film' theme started in the last post, I would like to inform the members of my drama seminar that it is quite likely that they will be seeing this silent, black-and-white 1950s film by absurdist playwright Jean Genet in the next few weeks, when my turn to present comes around. It is "a poetic and intensely physical vision of homosexual desire set in a French prison".Amazon thinks it is an 18, Play.com thinks it is a PG.
Regardless, anyone who refuses to watch it on grounds of 'offence to sensibilities' will be excused only if they can prove they have not seen Brokeback Mountain.
(Pre-presentation previews will be screened sometime around the weekend!)
posted by Lucy at 2:53 pm
6 Comments:
What you said.
"It is 'a poetic and intensely physical vision of homosexual desire set in a French prison'."
What I read.
"It is gay porn."
PHILISTINE
(it is going to be great)
I'm just reading between the lines. I bet there'll be lots of lingering close-ups and meaningful looks. Probably a whole heap of symbolism involving a guards truncheon.
(will there be subtitles?)
It is un film silent.
And when the blurb says 'intensely physical' it means 'it was banned for decades because it is so explicit'.
This will either make or break my reputation within the department :/
This seems rather an odd choice for making or breaking a reputation. What other films have been screened so far?
Also, I have an odd desire to see it having just noticed the use of the word 'absurdist' in your blurb.
Well as it is a seminar for a module about Dramatic Performance in the Twentieth Century we are not really supposed to show films at all, as it is supposed to be about stagecraft. So far we have had the trailer for 'A Clockwork Orange' and a C19th version of 'The Tempest'.
I will not be showing the whole thing (and at this rate I won't be showing it at all as I have still not ordered it! )
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