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Knife + Heart

2018, Yann Gonzalez

4.1/5

Knife+Heart (French: Un couteau dans le cœur, lit. 'A Knife in the Heart') is a 2018 horror-thriller film directed by Yann Gonzalez, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cristiano Mangione. It was produced by Charles Gillibert and stars Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran, Jonathan Genet and Romane Bohringer. An international co-production of France, Mexico and Switzerland, the film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The lead character is loosely based on Anne-Marie Tensi, a female producer specialized in gay pornography who was active in France in the 1970s and 1980s.

A young man dances in a nightclub. He spots a man wearing a leather mask and goes with him to a room to have sex. A black bird flies past him as he follows the masked man, who later ties him to a bed and kills him with a dildo containing a concealed, retractable blade. It is the summer of 1979 in Paris, and Anne, a producer and director of gay pornography, finds herself alone and in terror in an isolated area of the city at 5am. She arrives at a phone booth and calls her former girlfriend and film editor, Loïs, who tells her she must sober up and go home, that their relationship is over, and "My heart has gone dry." The following day, Anne's best friend and lead actor Archibald is trying to maintain a positive environment while they shoot Anne's next film. Anne arrives at the stage and spies on Loïs through a peephole as she works. Loïs expresses boredom with "the same old shit" when one of the crew brings her cans of newly shot dailies. Thierry, one of the actors, has trouble maintaining an erection. Archibald tells him to "ease up on the heroin," to which Valentin, another actor says, "It's not the dope, it's his paycheck," and Anne tells him if the money is not good enough, they can easily be replaced. Later, at Archie's flat, Anne has strange dreams of birds and fire. The police call Archie looking for Anne. While being questioned at the precinct, it is revealed the young man murdered at the beginning, Karl, had starred in many of Anne's films. Karl's death forces Anne to find another actor; she meets a young labourer named Nans, who despite being heterosexual agrees to star in her upcoming film. Explaining to Archie that Nans is the spitting image of her former star Fouad, whom Archie says has joined the Foreign Legion, Anne is convinced that Nans will impress Loïs, and incorporates Karl's murder and her meeting with the police into the narrative of her new film, Anal Fury V. This greatly upsets Mouth of Gold, the troupe's resident Fluffer, who admits to Archie that he loved Karl.

If you like Knife + Heart, you might also like 2010s Serial Killer Films, French Films About Revenge, Erotic Horror Films, and 2018 Lgbt-related Films.

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