JT Leroy's novels are over-hyped garbage. Its marketing genius at its best, don't take the bait like others have. The novels are actually written by Laura Albert, a forty something hack that has cashed more money this year then in all the rest of her forty odd years combined. The technique is totally fine to do and has been done for hundreds of years to dupe customers into buying MORE books but it will never make a great writer. 'Sarah' was an OK book and the 'Heart is deceitful' is worse. That's my comment on the source material now to the actual film. Asia Argento has picked up a few directing tricks while taking bumps with her Hollywood pals and European auteur friends but this film cant be saved due to the main reason that the novel is just too weak to sustain a feature film. If this film was made by Harmony Korine it might have had some great moments. This hearkens back to John Waters' 'Pink Flamingoes' but with all the interesting parts taking out. See Paul Morrissey's film 'Trash' over this steaming pile of...movies like this just don't survive, the ones who champion around it today will be heralding 'the next' whatever tomorrow. Simply but...awful.
