After male “teen” writer J.T. Leroy — a salacious, press friendly back story that included prostitution, drug addiction and vagrancy — was exposed as a fraud in 2005 (was actually proved to be writer Laura Albert and played in public by actress Savannah Knoop) — we thought the actor/director publicly decried the stunt and gave up directing. After all she made an entire film based on Leroy’s now-proven-to-be-fraudulent short story memoir, “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things” (and lord a gloriously, unwatchably bad one at that).

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2002’s “Demonlover” featured original music composed by Sonic Youth and and Chicagoan avante-composer Jim O’Rourke, 1996’s cult-fave “Irma Vep” featured more SY and Luna, and 2004’s “Clean” featured a shitload of the warm, sonic atmospheric bath that is Brian Eno, plus tracks by the Notwist, and Metric (who made a cameo playing themselves at a gig).

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First off though, we take issue with the “Irma Vep,” crowd that adores that aggressively average 1996-made paean to filmmaking (Maggie Cheung is a wooden actress as far as we’re concerned; and yes, we love JP Léaud too, but he, a movie does not make), and unfairly compares all of his work to the supposed brilliance of ‘Vep.’ So that’s an unfortunate irritant, but we digress…

A bedraggled and hot Asia Argento stars as Sandra, an ex-prostitute once involved in twisted sexual games with former client turned lover, the bloated and twisted millionaire businessman, Miles (Michael Madsen).

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