Knife+Heart 2018 123movies

Watch: Un couteau dans le cœur 2018 123movies, Full Movie Online – Anne 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, flamboyant 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..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	6.3/10 Votes: 4,835
	81% | RottenTomatoes
	70/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 164 Popularity: 5.8 | TMDB

Reviews:

A mediation on death and sex
KNIFE+HEART isn’t the first work of art to combine the specter of the AIDS epidemic, the sex positivity of the gay liberation movement (which came to a crashing halt with the emergence of AIDS), and the conventions of horror/thriller/slasher films. In poetry form, Kevin Killian’s 1997 ARGENTO SERIES fused the brightly colored blood splatter of SUSPIRIA with the inexplicable death toll of HIV. Probably my favorite of all such works, however, is Alain Guiraudie’s 2014 film STRANGER BY THE LAKE, which yearns for the titillation of casual sex even as it constantly exudes the threatening possibilities inherent in such encounters in a way that’s truly unsettling.

KNIFE+HEART isn’t about AIDS, per se, but it does pile on a nicely textured layer of meanings about the interlocking nature of the sex and the death drive. The violent impulses that underlie S&M fantasies; the death of the ego that makes dance floors, drug trips, and uninhibited sexual encounters equally ecstatic; the orgasmic peak that led English Renaissance poets to use “die” as a metaphoric synonym for “climax”; the “death” of the presumed-straight child that occurs whenever a queer adolescent or adult comes out of the closet and must then sometimes abandon past expectations, past claims to identity, and links to old family and friends; the loss a parent might feel when a child leaves for a safer queer space like the city; the loss of one’s individuality when entering into a committed partnership with another person; the godlike control over life and death that lies in both the hands of the artist and the medium of photography, which captures and preserves moments in time; and the literal violence and murder perpetrated against not only queer and trans people but also sex workers in general–KNIFE+HEART is about all of this, I think, and probably a lot more, including things perhaps too personal for a viewer to decipher.

KNIFE+HEART carries a heavy load of theoretical possibilities, but it never comes across as pretentious or overladen. Rather, it’s consistently engaging, with campy excesses of giallo bloodshed, a proliferation of cute boys, a pulsing soundtrack by M83, and bits of both levity and realism that make it moving even though it is essentially, like the best of Argento, utterly ridiculous and implausible. It may not have quite the same high style that peak Argento had, but it definitely has a lot more substance.

Another post-modern giallo from another promising film stylist
The re-make of “Suspiria” has been preceded in the UK by at least two hommages to its creator Dario Argento. In Argentina Endelman and Montejano produced “Crystal Eyes” while in France Yann Gonzalez paid tribute with “Knife + Heart”, a perfect choice for a midnight screening at the London Film Festival. “Crystal Eyes” is marginally the more creative work, certainly the camper, but Gonzalez is a great stylist, who knows his slashers and can flawlessly recreate the exploitation era. In 1979 Paris lesbian film-maker Lois (Vanessa Paradis!) makes arty gay porn that suddenly attracts the attention of a masked fiend, who begins murdering her cast. The opening sequence, which intercuts gay skin flicks with real life, sets the tone. “Knife + Heart” is very pro-porn, pro-gay and intensely cinematic. Although Gonzalez is mainly parodying and poking fun here, he’s clearly a gifted stylist, choosing great locations and revelling in that “Suspiria” colour scheme. Two thirds of the way through, the daft story takes a dip, but then builds to a rousing finale in which the heroes are the patrons of a gay grindhouse. At the screening I attended people left the cinema during the main end credits, thereby missing the “message” about life and cinema which comes before the end crawl. Some will be appalled at the idea of Paradis starring in a gay slasher. But she throws herself into her work and is a commanding presence throughout despite strong support from everyone. As with “Crystal Eyes” it’ll be interesting to see whether “Knife + Heart” can cross over from the festival circuit. If not it’ll also be interesting to see what Gonzalez tries next. A talent to watch.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director Yann Gonzalez
Writer Yann Gonzalez, Cristiano Mangione
Actors Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran
Country France, Mexico, Switzerland
Awards 8 wins & 24 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Aaton Xterà, Zeiss Super Speed and Angenieux HEC Lenses, Arricam LT, Panavision Super Speed MKII and Angenieux HR Lenses
Laboratory Andec Filmtechnik, Berlin, Germany (processing: 16 mm black & white), ColorCity, Paris, France (processing: 16 mm positive), Hiventy, Malakoff, France (processing: 35mm) (digital intermediate), video-de-poche (laboratory), vidéo-de-poche (laboratory)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm (Kodak Vision3 200T 7213, Vision3 500T 7219, Eastman Double-X 7222, Wittner Chrome 200D), 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 200T 5213, Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Spherical (16 mm footage) (source format), Techniscope (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, D-Cinema