Un Chant D'Amour & The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WclvzAc9s

Another interesting aspect of Un Chant D'Amour was the lack of verbal dialogue in the film, though one can argue that there is a very clear dialogue present in the action and images on the screen. The use of music is also very important in the film and the english translation of the film is "A Song of Love". Through music and emotion in the images Genet is able to relate to the audience. The audience feels the connection between the two prisoners and the power dynamic between the guard and the prisoner. The focus on body parts, particularly faces and penises, conveys much of the emotion in the film (the love between the two prisoners and the sexual tension between the many different men portrayed in the short. This focus on particular parts of the body was a inspiration for our final film project and our desire to focus on aspects of the body as a story was told. Part of this choice to focus on body parts was to allow anonymity to those telling the stories; which is almost the opposite of how Genet uses the images in the film. Genet uses his images of the body as a way for the characters to have power and emotions. For us, this was very effective.