104 mins |
Rated
R16 (brutal violence, domestic abuse, sex scenes, drug use & offensive language)
Directed by Rose Glass
Starring Dave Franco, Kristen Stewart, Katy M. O'Brian, Jerry G. Angelo, Anna Baryshnikov, Keith Jardine, Lily Harris, Yvette Fazio-Delaney, David DeLao, Catherine Haun, Mikandrew , Orion Carrington, Matthew Blood-Smyth, Gonzalo Robles, Hilary Fleming, Jeff Worden, Ed Harris, Jena Malone
From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family...
"Love Lies Bleeding is Blood Simple and Bound and Shallow Grave and Blue Ruin. Point Blank, too, and Hard Times and Rolling Thunder. It’s a road trip and a crime thriller, a rom-com and Pumping Iron in its fetishization of the shuddering sinew and sour sweat of human machinery. It is also vicious, a wild thing all its own, unpredictable and naive, inevitable and wise. It feels like a carpet burn right after you get it, how you look at the pink swath of it freshly debrided and watch blood well up in tiny red rubies, like magic. Like magic. There are no half-measures in this film. When it’s sexy, it’s sexy. When it’s violent, it’s sexy as fuck..." Film Freak Central
With its bone-crunching violence, lengthy and graphic sex sequences, and general unremitting air of unseemliness, it would be an understatement to say that Love Lies Bleeding will not be for all tastes. But I found it to be an out-and-out delight: a gleefully perverse and cracklingly energetic thriller which twists genre conventions into something fresh and wholly unpredictable..." Boston Hassle
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From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family...
"Love Lies Bleeding is Blood Simple and Bound and Shallow Grave and Blue Ruin. Point Blank, too, and Hard Times and Rolling Thunder. It’s a road trip and a crime thriller, a rom-com and Pumping Iron in its fetishization of the shuddering sinew and sour sweat of human machinery. It is also vicious, a wild thing all its own, unpredictable and naive, inevitable and wise. It feels like a carpet burn right after you get it, how you look at the pink swath of it freshly debrided and watch blood well up in tiny red rubies, like magic. Like magic. There are no half-measures in this film. When it’s sexy, it’s sexy. When it’s violent, it’s sexy as fuck..." Film Freak Central
With its bone-crunching violence, lengthy and graphic sex sequences, and general unremitting air of unseemliness, it would be an understatement to say that Love Lies Bleeding will not be for all tastes. But I found it to be an out-and-out delight: a gleefully perverse and cracklingly energetic thriller which twists genre conventions into something fresh and wholly unpredictable..." Boston Hassle
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