Anne is a lesbian filmmaker, yet her story mirrors the obsessive, self-destructive love common in gay melodrama. She sets the world on fire (literally, in the film’s climax) to get Loïs’s attention. The killer’s knife-heart is a literal metaphor: love as a weapon that wounds the wielder.
Unlike most films that use the porn industry as a backdrop for sleaze, Knife Heart treats its gay male actors with tenderness, humor, and respect. We see: Knife Heart -2018-.EngSubs-Gay Interest