It looks like Anne will get another modest success through this latest product of hers, but she has been feeling quite bad and depressed since her recent breakup with Lois (Kate Moran), who has been her lover and also worked as the editor of her gay porn flicks. Around the beginning of the film, we see a part of her latest product, and its nostalgic quality reminds us that there was a time when lots of cheap pornography films were shot on 16mm film and then released in a certain type of movie theaters. Set in the summer of 1979, the movie mainly revolves around Anne (Vanessa Paradis), a female movie producer who has made several cheap gay porn flicks along with her small but reliable cast and crew members for many years. Although it is a bit shame that the movie does not try to be something more than a mere pastiche of its two different genres, the movie is still fairly amusing for moods and details to be savored and appreciated, and it is actually poignant at times even though it frequently swings around different emotional modes with sheer preposterousness.
French film “Knife+Heart” is a cheerfully gaudy and goofy mix of cheap gay porn flicks and campy giallo horror movies of the 1970s.
