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Forbidden Zone

Knife + Heart

Yann GONZALEZ

France, Mexico, Switzerland2018 102min Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Anne, a gay porn director, is frustrated by the faded love of her boyfriend Lois, an editor and companion. She is inspired by the death of a porn star by a series of mysterious murders, and makes a controversial film.

Program Note

Anne, a producer of gay porn is heart-broken when her editor Lois has ended their romantic relationship. A masked killer seduces pretty gays and brutally murders them with a dildo. While actors in her project are killed one by one, Anne gets some inspiration and starts making a controversial film, Homo Cidal. Will Anne turn Lois’s cold heart back? The film is mixed with non-mainstream elements such as camp aesthetic, slasher, giallo from the 1970s. It has an appealing soundtrack created by M83 whose leader is Antoni Gonzalez, the director’s brother. The film was selected in the 2018 Cannes competition, and received mixed reviews from critics due to the slack direction for a thriller and the performance of Vanessa Paradis. Still, the film is quite original for its use of 35mm camera, its own aesthetics of high-quality trash, and Homo Cidal, a film within a film. (Ellen Y.D. KIM)

Diretor

Yann GONZALEZ

Born in 1977. Between 2006 and 2012, he directed six short films before turning to full-length features with You and the Night (2013) which was presented during the Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival. His second feature is Knife+Heart and was nominated for seven categories at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.