Knife+Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018): France | Mexico | Switzerland

Reviewed by Yuan Luo, watched in AFI Filmfest 2018

“The knife+heart” is based on the life of a famous GV female director Anne, telling about the serial murder of the GV men in Paris in the 1970s. At that time, Anne’s personal emotional life also experienced a crisis, and her girlfriend Lois scored, and the latter is the editor of her studio. The actor who had cooperated with the news was murdered in the club. She did not sink down when she was sad. She even wrote the transcript of the police station and assisted the investigation into the story of her new GV “Homicidal”. Shooting. But as the GV actor who participated in her work was killed one after another, she also panicked, and the police’s inaction made Anne angry. A police officer sympathizing with Anne privately gave her a physical evidence of a few murder scenes – a black bird feather to her. Taking this as a clue, she found that the murderer and the black bird following the death are inextricably linked. At the same time, she did not stop shooting and creating, and constantly used reality as a material to insinuate this serial killing case with SM, group sex, masturbation and other means. “Homicidal” was finally murdered, and the daring murderer even went to the premiere of the film and was murdered under the cover of the darkness of the film. In order to save her, ex-girlfriend Lois was stabbed into the heart by the murderer. The audience of the erotic cinema found that the danger was imminent, and they came forward to protect their favorite GV directors and actors. The killer finally showed his true face, and Anne was hard to resent him when he was shocked.

From the plot, it is not difficult to see that the film’s thrilling retro elements are full. The director took inspiration from the Italian and American old-fashioned thrillers, the latter represented by De Palma, and worked hard on the audiovisual, making the whole movie an unforgettable psychedelic experience. The opening of the movie is a party scene of a large-scale underground gay nightclub. Numerous young beautiful bodies are bare or wrapped in odd costumes. In psychedelic electronic music, dance with desire. A beautiful teenager came to the dark room on the upstairs of the nightclub with a charming masked man. The latter tied the beautiful boy’s handcuffs to the bed, pulled the leather zipper and pulled out a black dildo – just as the audience held their breath and looked forward to some When the scene is unspeakable, the masked man shoots a sharp knife from the front end of the dildo! Bloody splashes, Gangzalz contributed the first murder scene of the film. This first act will show the advantages of this film to the fullest. The images taken with film have been carefully tuned, and the swatches are mainly red and blue contrasts to present the Paris underground nightclub and GV shooting scenes. In the linear narrative of the theme, the part depicting Anne and friends is constantly interspersed with brightly-colored photos and a short flashing video. In the murderer’s part, the flashback is done in black and white, with narrative and episode supplements, and color The contrast on the audience gives the audience full hints. De Parma-style clips, the perfect blend of violence and emotions, the appropriate bloody lens makes the plot more exciting.

What’s more worth mentioning is that the film is made by the famous French electronic band M83. It turns out that there is an era in which you can see the lens of desire in the theater. The former people were serious, seriously seduce, and seriously lost. There is no gender boundary, but a body looks for another body, and a soul greets another soul.