Our Lady of the Flowers.

Film Back in 2002, The Guardian's Edmund White considered French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist Jean Genet's love of film and how it impacted on his work:

"Genet kept coming back imaginatively to the cinema and/or the village in his work. By the time in the early 1940s when he was working on Our Lady of the Flowers, his first novel, he had already written several plays and at least one film script. (They have been lost, and we know little about their contents.) In Our Lady, much of the action occurs in the village where a lonely, poetic boy - who will grow up to be Divine, the drag queen and prostitute - is in love with a snake tamer. There are ecstatic descriptions of people and places right out of Genet's village life."