Premiering at Cannes Film Festival last year was Knife + Heart, the second feature-length directorial effort from Yann Gonzalez, a former member of M83. Starring Vanessa Paradis as a ’70s gay porn producer, her productions soon get stalled when a murderer starts stalking those involved. Ahead of a March release, the new U.S. trailer and poster have arrived from Altered Innocence.
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “There is a movie within the movie Knife + Heart and it boasts the slightly euphemistic title of Homocidal (although I prefer the working title: Anal Fury). It is, in fact, being filmed as we watch, along with a number of other similarly lewd movies. Homocidal is the latest production of Far West Films, a fictional queer softcore porn studio that acts as the focus of Knife + Heart, a delightfully icky horror movie seeped in beautiful Giallo homage that is the second feature of Niçoise polymath Yann Gonzalez (who you might know as one half of M83).”
See the trailer and poster below via Bloody Disgusting.
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne (French pop star Vanessa Paradis) produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange investigation that turns her life upside-down.
Knife + Heart opens in NY on March 15 and LA on March 22.