Desc: Tueur, trader et psychopathe - L'Amérique de Bret Easton Ellis: Directed by Jean-Christophe Klotz. With Robert Asahina, Christian Bale, Pierre Bayard, Olivier Cohen. The captivating story of the genesis of "American Psycho" and the immense controversy that this bloody and visionary novel by Bret Easton Ellis provoked, taken at face value when it was released in 1991.