Meanwhile: Anne's friends are systematically being murdered by the above-mentioned masked killer. He hesitates to agree to anything, so she half-taunts, half-challenges him: "I pegged you as more modern." After this brief encounter, Anne returns to her car with a big smile: even if Nans says no, she'll find new talent for her films, just by scouring the nearby work-sites.
Not an easy task since Nans isn't dumb enough to roll over when Anne assures him that she only sometimes produces gay porn. Though she does, essentially, seduce him when she asks him to star in her films. But Fouad is long gone-or so we're told-and Nans isn't exactly what Anne wants him to be. To Anne, Nans looks just like Fouad (also Alouach), the star of some of her favorite older productions. Her character is also clearly turned on by Nans ( Khaled Alouach), a young construction worker whose stand-out features are completely superficial: he's young, un-self-conscious, and very. Paradis, as Anne, pleads with a raw intensity that carries over into crying, touching, and other forms of unsolicited clinginess. She's just been dumped by reclusive film editor Lois ( Kate Moran) and isn't too proud to beg Lois to be taken back. Which is saying something since Anne is pretty desperate when we meet her.
In their movie's better moments, Gonzalez and Mangione's refuse to soften up Anne ( Vanessa Paradis), an emotionally volatile, but basically sympathetic producer of low-budget gay porn. Thankfully, director Gonzalez and Mangione usually settle on a tone that's more pensive than playful, making "Knife+Heart" a satisfying, unsentimental psychodrama.
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That scene's glib tone carries over into almost every scene where the movie's protagonists-who are all, in some way, involved with the making of gay male-on-male pornography-either film or exhibit their own dirty movies. These movies within the movie are a little too kitschy, and that makes it difficult to sympathize with the protagonists' heavy concerns: Is it ok to seek out romance, to be sexually active, and to be openly gay at a time that we now know was dangerous for queer lovers? But mostly because the movie begins with a joyless and gross murder: a mask-wearing killer ululates like a wounded animal while he repeatedly stabs his young lover with a black, dildo-shaped dagger.