The only film by novelist and playwright Jean Genet - a poetic and intensely physical vision of homosexual desire set in a French prison. 'Un Chant D'Amour' has been the subject of endless controversy and international censorship and remained unseen for many years.
Iliac is a twenty-year-old masseur in a massage parlor that caters to a gay clientele. In here sex is an immediate consequence of massage. Outside the parlor his current girlfriend a bar girl who works in Japan asserts her sexual dominion over him. Back home his estranged father dies and as he makes the trip to the province he is faced with the reality of decay love life and survival - all within the context of the performance of duty.
From acclaimed and prolific Filipino bad-boy director Brillante Mendoza (The Masseur Kinatay Serbis) comes Slingshot a gripping and exhilarating portrayal of teenage thugs slippery chancers and petty thieves all out to get what they can and pocket a profit in the teeming slums of Asias notorious city of sin Manila. Starring Nathan Lopez from The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros Slingshot is a riveting expos of life on the other side of the tracks.
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