Argento drama hard to forget

Asia Argento both stars in and directs The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (Tartan, €24.99), a powerful and moving work guaranteed to linger in the memory long after it ends.

JT is a kid whose mum (Argento) turns up and takes him on the road to nowhere, a sickening descent into a violent hell where life is cheap and nobody cares. Difficult enough at the best of times, but when mum is a junkie and makes a few bucks prostituting herself the problems only add to JT’s fears and sexual confusion.