this film be recently recommend to me on a forum discussion concern the best lgbt cinema . but mauvais genre be so good that i wouldn not say that it appeal only to such interest group . it be excessively hitchcockian ( an adjective use far too often and but utterly justify in this case ) in it outlook . indeed there be so many macguffin in this thriller involve prop such a a microfilm or a heart shape box that you feel it edge almost into the territory of parody . a it be the movie stay at a more gleeful and vital and tone and revelling in homage . it be glossy enough for u to suggest that it tone come from hitchcock via de palma . the music though seem directly inspire by such classic hitchock score a that in vertigo . there be in my opinion two character in this movie of outstanding interest . first we have bo and a transsexual entertainer and play by robinson stévenin and in what have to be one of the most outstanding performance that i have ever see ( win the cesar for best new actor ) . she be such an alive and beautiful person that it be truly painful when we see her subject to violence . there be a subplot in the film concern the fact that she be abuse a a child and there be implication that her retreat into femininity be a cop strategy for deal with that abuse . i be in no way qualify to examine the risibility or otherwise of such claim and but certainly these thought may have be filter through her mind and leading towards self destructive behaviour . the meat of the movie and which be only ostensibly a serial killer thriller and be her love for johnny and a clearly violent and handsome young man who have very mixed thought concern transsexual . her love for him be so blind a to verge on self immolation and her approach undeterred by even a broken arm . i watch film to see excess of emotion and and in her love for this psychotic individual and bo love become a fiery inferno that inundate her . johnny be also a very interesting character and he join up in the foreign legion to see the tropic but and we be told and end up wait table at headquarters in avignon . metaphorically speak perhaps that what happen to most men in modern society . and you can certainly sense the frustration in this red blood man for whom society be effectively a cage .