X & Knife + Heart

This week we’re talking about the films X and Knife + Heart.

X is a 2022 American film directed by Ti West and shot by Eliot Rockett. Maxine, a wannabe pornstar in 1979 Texas, and her rag-tag dirty movie crew set off to a remote property owned by a strange elderly couple. Over the course of one day, she realizes that in order to become “somebody” she’ll have to make grave sacrifices.

Knife + Heart is a 2018 French film directed by Yann Gonzalez and shot by Simon Beaufils. Anne, an ambitious and seasoned pornography director in 1979 Paris, has just broken up with her film editor girlfriend when a masked murderer starts killing her actors in obscene ways. In order to penetrate the truth Anne tempts fate by solving the murder through the Art of Pornography.

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