If you loved Welcome to the Rileys, try The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the gut punch, raw mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Welcome to the Rileys, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things is
*Precious* without redemption. A young boy is reclaimed from foster care by his volatile, drug-addicted mother, initiating a grim odyssey through poverty and abuse. Asia Argento's film unflinchingly adapts JT LeRoy's novel, a bleak time capsule of early-aughts indie transgression.

