Exiles of Love

“Watching Genet’s film Un chant d’amour and reading the novels and plays, it struck me how expressions of beauty and desire were inseparable from a “darkness” or violence. This prompted a documentary, not about Genet but about this “dark” quality in contemporary gay desire”. Interviews, which include Derek Jarman are intercut with scenes inspired by Genet’s work. (Toby Kalitowski)