Les équilibristes, a film by Nico Papatakis with Michel Piccoli, inspired by Jean Genet, was broadcast in two parts on October 11 and 18, 1991, on La Sept. It was on this occasion that Philippe Grandrieux made this short film for the antenna of La Sept, consisting of an interview with Nico Papatakis and the reading of extracts from Jean Genet’s text, “Le tightrope walker”, read by the actress Ann-Gisel Glass.

Text of the on-air presentation of the second part of the film: “Les equilibristes”… dance more than ever on a tightrope, and in the game of balance, it is the less gifted who hurt themselves the most. Second part of the TV movie by Nico Papatakis, with Michel Piccoli and Lilah Dadi. Marcel gets tired, Marcel is bored. Marcel finds that on land, the albatrosses lack grace, Marcel loses interest in the wire and the tightrope walker… Franz-Ali slips and Marcel does not catch up with him, too busy watching the progress of a young biker in the distance.

(translated from https://www.movielike.me/)

Les Équilibristes - Nico Papatakis, Jean Genet (Philippe Grandrieux, 1991).mkv

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An interview with Genet.

551MB | 45m 19s | 640×480 | avi

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Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post Jean Genet – Jean Genet [Interview with Bertrand Poirot-Delpech] (1982) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
Genet’s only film — hounded by the censors, unavailable, secret — is an early and remarkably moving attempt to portray homosexual passions. Already a classic, it succeeds as perhaps no other film to intimate the explosive power of frustrated sex; male prisoners in solitary confinement “embracing” walls, ramming them in erotic despair with erect penis, swaying convulsively to auto-erotic lust, kissing their own bodies and tattoos in sexual frenzy. In a supremely poetic (and visual) metaphor of sexual deprivation, two prisoners in adjoining cells symbolically perform fellatio by alternately blowing or inhaling each other’s cigarette smoke through a straw inserted in a wall opening, while masturbating. Like all of Genet’s early work, the entire film is, in effect, a single onanistic fantasy, filled with desperate frustration and sensuous nostalgia. In the end, and after many failures, some flowers — painfully passed from one barred window to the next — are finally caught by the prisoner in the adjoining cell in a poetic affirmation of love in infinite imprisonment.

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