Rare viewing opportunity alert!: we have just unburied from Google Video's archives Jean Genet's Un Chant d'amour (France, 1950, 26'), a very lyrical (and simultaneously rough around the edges) take on homoeroticism that must have inspired the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Read more here.Speaking of French cinema, our friends at Greencine have a great interview with French director Catherine Breillat, whose new film, Une Vieille Meitresse (The Last Mistress, 2007) was recently shown at the 2008 San Francisco film festival. Breillat is a member of that small club, the female film director, but she certainly makes up for this imbalance in the film industry with some ballsy pictures.
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