Love Lies Bleeding (2024) –

Reviewer Flickchart Rating: 601 / 5,424

Love Lies Bleeding (2024) stars the infinitely fantastic Kristen Stewart as Lou, a haggard health club supervisor, and Katy O’Brian because the seemingly naive burgeoning bodybuilder Jackie. Lou is burned out of life; she wears the load of the previous over the whole thing of her being. Jackie involves our story shiny, homeless, and keen to do nearly something to progress towards her aim of successful an upcoming bodybuilding competitors in Las Vegas. Jackie solely sees future. 

Every plot beat may really feel worn out, recycled indie territory, from the inevitable romance between Lou and Jackie to the narrative flip into legal habits and the less-than-surprising methods the darkness round ties them collectively. However author/director Rose Glass (Saint Maud, 2019) shifts away from the well-traveled strategies, utilizing humor sparingly however successfully, and using a number of filmmaking strategies that enable us to expertise this gritty crime story by thrilling new lenses. 

Shut your eyes and picture for a second that deep within the depths of the Hollywood film laboratory Glass blended a Coen Brothers crime story with a little bit of the thoughts of David Cronenberg and only a pinch of a bodybuilding documentary. When you can see that, you possibly can start to grasp what makes Love Lies Bleeding so particular. 

Exuberant love scenes, disturbing violence, eccentric characters, magic realism, darkish humor, and moments that seize that wondrous excessive that new love brings; Rose Glass’s movie embraces its influences and pushes ahead into her personal distinctive voice. Kristen Stewart casually sucks you into Lou’s interior life, whereas Katy O’Brian mesmerizes in her first main function, and Ed Harris does his greatest to attempt to steal each scene he exhibits up in. Love Lies Bleeding gives audiences every part they need from a spirited indie crime thriller, whereas offering the gorgeous rush of an thrilling new cinematic voice.