It also reminds us of the things that have not changed, and the way that our own internalized homophobia that can rear its ugly head when we are around other members of our community. Knife+Heart And Giallo Episode Script. A masked madman stalks a gay porn set in 1979 Paris while its producer Anne, (French pop star Vanessa Paradis) tries to win back her editor and lover Lois by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald. Sometimes the Blue represents woman and the Red represents men, such as in a club scene where a group of red shirt wearing men dance bathed in red light. Tomorrow, we die,” espouses one prospective murder victim. Shot in 35mm and featuring a killer retro score from M83, KNIFE+HEART is an ultra-stylish and blood-soaked ode to '70s-era De Palma, Argento, and Friedkin. And on top of everything, it’s arguably the best work of LGBTQ+ horror I have ever seen. True story! Knife + Heart is a strong contemporary giallo, albeit on the campier side. Knife + Heart wrings giallo-inspired thrills out of a boldly challenging story that defiantly succeeds on its own stylish merits. These parts are slow, moody, atmospheric, with dream-like logic and feeling, and more of an emphasis on tone, mood and directing. For a giallo riff so light on gore, “Knife + Heart” is still a bloody mess. We bounce from crowded clubs to sleazy porn theaters to rundown apartments and back again. We get beautiful stories about loss, heartbreak, love, comfort, safety, and self-expression, and they add dynamics and dimensions to the characters as well as explain their motivations, such as Anne’s desire to throw herself at her work in an attempt to win back Lois. Gida Labaran Nishadi Na Ban tsoro 'Knife + Heart' shine Gritty Giallo tare da Queer Twist Labaran Nishadi Na Ban tsoro 'Knife + Heart' shine Gritty Giallo tare da Queer Twist In the last ten years, a number of filmmakers, particularly in Francophone Europe, has produced and directed relatively high-profile films occupying a genre that has come to be known as neo-giallo. Knife+Heart is a beautifully shot, moody slasher film with an involving mystery that hooks you from its gory opening moments all the way to the heartbreaking climax. Despite lodging horror tropes, Knife + Heart doesn’t try to frighten. Every year, Cannes tends to run a spiky provocation towards the end of its 12-day run. Firstly, there is a masked killer … The exploitative nature of grindhouse films and the representation of the gay community in such films. We’ve covered that in our LGBTQ horror episode a bit, the idea of the murderous or psychotic queer. There was a unique one that came out in 2013 called The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears, but it was definitely an oddity when it came out. So the first kill of the film is a guy tied up face down on the bed, can’t move. It’s become a time-honored tradition. I didn’t expect this sort of redemptive arc in the film but I really enjoyed it a lot, and it added another layer to the investigation part of the film. Alright, now let’s just cover the top 3 here, just for time’s sake and also to just truly appreciate these kills. We’re talking titles like The Black Belly Of The Tarantula, Seven Blood Stained Orchids, and The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, that last one arguably being the film that kicked off the genre in the most significant way, really solidifying it as a movement, by arguably the genre’s biggest name: Dario Argento. And honestly, this world is fascinating. These days Giallo is pretty rare. Director Yann Gonzalez’s new film Knife+Heart has been described as both a “deliriously kinky queer horror thriller” and a “queer giallo thriller,” and while there is definitely a thriller aspect to it, the movie is giallo to its absolute core. It’s specifically a modern reinvention of the giallo , an Italian subgenre that inspired the American slasher but definitely plays by it’s own rules. And yes…he is sodomized with the dildo knife in horrifically bloody fashion. All that being said, like always, this episode is divided into “pre- and post-spoilers” sections, so you can learn a bit about the film and decide whether or not it’s for you before checking it out or ruining it for yourself. 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Now…I want to gush more about what I loved about this film, but that means I’m gonna get into some spoiler territory here so if you want to avoid that, I’d stop listening here. So it’s not surprise that at the end of her film, she makes herself the killer. The beginning of the film is slightly misleading in that, for awhile, it’s kind of kill after kill. Sometimes this involves themes of questioning one’s sanity, sometimes it’s a commentary on being an outsider in society, sometimes it’s a comment on sexuality, sometimes it’s none of those things. It's from France, a country more given to the fantastique film than the giallo - though there are movies like The Night Caller, Without Apparent Motive and The Night Under the Throat. Then we have Mario Bava, another true pioneer who further helped establish a signature of the genre…which is colored lighting. , bathed in red light. Shit, when one guy in the film says he’s not gay in a defensive way, Anne looks at him and says “I thought you were more modern”, and encourages him to try by saying “You’ll die smarter!”. It never shames the porn actors or producers, portraying it as a job like any other. Horror noire. Other times the colors indicate life and death: the movie opens in a club where our first victim dances in blue light, and is bathed in red when he is tied up later. Seriously! — AT So we start getting that in the 1960s. Spook Squad is a horror podcast that bring together friends, beer, and some of the wildest horror movies around for fun discussions and commentary. Or you know, let’s grab a beer. We get a lot of scenes in the porn studio, or other so-called sketchy parts of town where the lighting not only makes sense, but enhances the feel of the scene, aesthetically, in a big way. It is also a stunning, shocking, sad, beautiful work of film which absolutely deserves your attention. Spook Squad is a horror podcast that bring together friends, beer, and some of the wildest horror movies around for fun discussions and commentary. Pornography! Seriously, the visuals combined with the setting make the atmosphere in this film totally immersive. Because it’s true, when these novels were reprinted and sold in cheap, paperback ways they often had yellow covers…Giallo, means yellow in Italian, as I said earlier. Knife+Heart is what we are talking about! Likewise, the men who play her porn actors attack their roles with abandon. Knife+Heart aka Un couteau dans le coeur, a horror thriller from director Yann Gonzalez, is a film that will make you squirm, laugh out loud, cover your eyes, and sear images into your head that … Murder! And it honestly is great. Crime, Mystery, Thriller Les Rivieres Pourpres (2000) Parisian murder detective commissioner Pierre Niemans is called to Gueron, a self-sufficient, prestigious university in a mountain valley, to investigate the murder on 32-year old professor and librarian Remy Caillois, whose corpse was found 50 meters high on a steep mountain side, naked, horribly c … Adds to the mystery, I suppose, so we don’t know who our killer is in any way, but it’s also memorable imagery. Again, this is why the Giallo framing of this story is so clever; these are often murder-mysteries where an outsider attempts to solve a crime anyway, so the explanation for why our character does that in this film is actually based on sad truths: for years, LGBTQ folks did not get fair treatment from police, especially if they were sex workers. The actors in Anne's (Vannesa Paradis) third-rate porn flicks are being killed by a masked maniac on the streets of 1970's Paris. It’s a huge thing, and you get these very memorable shots as a result of it, these highly stylized sort of picture perfect shots that create an interesting mood and atmosphere. I mean it’s very deliberatly set in 79, right before the crisis, and gay porn actors are targeted and killed, the metaphor is pretty pointed in some ways. Because it falls into a genre of film we call…Giallo. Set in 1979, and shot in highly stylised blues and reds to suggest the colour coding of a giallo (or of the monstrously looming high-gloss cinema of the ’80s), Knife + Heart is all about the perversion of passion, and its reflection in performance. fantastic, no other way to put it. But let’s slow down for a second. I loved that. At one point in the film, Anne is recruiting new actors and she says she produces “Blue Movies”. Let me know on twitter, or email us spooksquadpodcast@gmail.com. Knife + Heart, written by Yann Gonzalez and Cristiano Mangione and directed by Gonzalez, revolves around a serial killer stalking the sets of a gay porn company in France in the 80s. Stream Knife + Heart uncut, ad-free on all your favorite devices. Truer words were never spoken. It’s hard not to see this as a commentary of film-making in general, or at least films of this type that used to exist. Yanna Gonzalez's Knife + Obi emewo ka ndị na-ege ntị jupụta ụwa dum ma ugbu a, ndị na-ekiri ihe nkiri na US ga-emesị nwee ohere ịhụ ihe nkiri ahụ. Its plot—not its most important attribute—is pretty simple: A masked killer … Fun fact, M83…is actually the director, Yann Gonzalez’ brother! For once, these characters don’t feel like stereotypes. It really went out of style in the 80s when Italian filmmakers moved onto other stuff, like Zombies (that’s a whole other episode). Knife + Heart wrings giallo-inspired thrills out of a boldly challenging story that defiantly succeeds on its own stylish merits. It seems the giallo is undergoing something of a resurgence. Gonna get into spoilers in 3…2…1…. It’s hilarious and not exploitative for once. I’m comfortable admitting that this is by far our least popular episode, and I had a feeling it might be when I was working on it; Knife+Heart is a relatively obscure film out of France which takes major cues from a genre that died out well over two decades ago. KNIFE + HEART is a joy for genre fans to behold. STARRING: VANESSA PARADIS; KATE MORAN; NICOLAS MAURY; JONATHAN GENET. Now as usual, I’m going to divide this episode into pre-and post-spoiler sections for people who haven’t seen the film and who are maybe still on the fence or just curious. Now, I looked it up, and apparently that’s an old term for porn, but it’s funny, this film makes that literal…as in, the actors are bathed in blue light when we see them being filmed during scenes for these porns. It’s specifically a modern reinvention of the giallo , an Italian subgenre that inspired the American slasher but definitely plays by it’s own rules. This is the sort of setting where grindhouse thrives, but there’s a little bit more elegance to the way the film approaches these things. Well…yeah, maybe you saw it coming but it was still incredible…the blowjob scene, in which the killer puts the dildo in the mouth of a knocked out junkie, and then, after some vigerous thrusting, makes the knife come out the back of his head, all in the glow of neon. DIRECTED BY: YANN GONZALEZ. No, it goes beyond that. So we’ll start with that! It is a transgressive queer masterpiece that will no doubt anger as many as it thrills. Paris, summer 1979. 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