Knife+Heart (2018)

Original title

Un couteau dans le cœur

Directed by

Yann Gonzalez

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film

Country

Mexico, France

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 228 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gay porn producer in 1970s Paris gets pulled into a murder mystery after a killer starts targeting her actors. She tries to keep her troubled relationship alive while hunting down the masked murderer.

campyviolentmelancholiceroticsuspensefulvisually lushstylishdarkly comic

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Sauvage (2018)
• Sorry Angel (2018)
• Alien Crystal Palace (2018)
• The Angel (2018)
• I Dream in Another Language (2017)
• Dance of the 41 (2020)
• Fine Young Men (2024)
• The Heiresses (2018)