The Prisoner's Song


Set in a French prison in a remote part of the Middle East, this is a poetic and intensely physical vision of homosexual desire. Soldiers sweat their days in solitary cells of a military jail and dream of sex with each other in the grass and flowers of their home fields. Stuck in the airless rooms, the sexy inmates drive themselves to the edge with obsessive and pornographic longing. A guard, played by Prouveur, watches them through peepholes. The inmates are well aware of this sexually suspect spy, and sometimes perform for him. Aroused by their brazenly sexual behavior, the guard's only response is to humiliate the one prisoner that has inflamed his passion. Packed with beautiful shots of extreme close-ups of sweaty armpits, feet, assholes and cocks, this film is aggressively explicit - bringing out the sense of prison realism and repressed desires.