Synopsis
In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.
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Cast
- Vanessa ParadisAnne Parèze
- Nicolas MauryArchibald Langevin
- Kate MoranLoïs McKenna
- Jonathan GenetGuy
- Romane BohringerCathy Vannier
- Khaled AlouachNans / Fouad
- Félix MaritaudThierry
- Noé HernándezJosé
- Thibault ServièreMisia
- Bastien WaultierKarl
Recommendations
- 83
The Film Stage
It is a film that will entice the viewer’s senses, if not necessarily their brain activity. - 83
The A.V. Club
The gauzy cinematography also helps, as does the mise-en-scène, which poses Anne’s chosen family of proud perverts in studied tableaus reminiscent of the Renaissance masters. Only, you know, in a porno. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Knife hits you from its very first frame — and this is really a frame of celluloid and not a file of gigabytes — as a work engulfed in the pleasures of filmmaking's past. - 70
Variety
Gonzalez has mastered the art of creating atmosphere and tone, but not tension, and the movie feels meandering and slow at times, since audiences are not invested in anyone’s survival. - 67
The A.V. Club
Knife + Heart sometimes feels as rough around the edges and inelegantly plotted as its pornos-within-the-movie, but maybe that’s just conceptual consistency. - 67
IndieWire
For a giallo riff so light on gore, Knife + Heart is still a bloody mess. - 60
CineVue
Gonzalez can be masterful in conjuring sexy imagery, febrile moods and erotic frissons, but his grip on the storytelling here is weak. Knife + Heart struggles to regain its initial momentum, falling flat until a lively climax. - 50
Screen Daily
A film drunk on its own trashy, lurid aesthetic, Knife + Heart (Un Couteau Dans Le Coeur) has style to burn but not as much sense.
