Love Lies Bleeding turns consciously wild and garish, and you may think that the film is losing control, yet Rose Glass is fiercely in control of what she’s doing. She’s made a midnight noir that shoots over the top of our expectations but lands where it should, at a place where eve...
Love Lies Bleedingisn’t set literally in the underworld, but it might as well be. Not only does its first image, a low-angle shot of two canyon walls lit by a nightmarish red light, immediately evoke ideas of hellfire and eternal damnation, but it’s set in the kind of ambiguously so...
Love Lies Bleeding review – Kristen Stewart keeps it real in deliciously lurid outlaw romance Rose Glass’s follow-up to her acclaimed Saint Maud is a scorchingly sexy, darkly violent tale of a gym manager’s love affair with a bodybuilderThis may seem an unexpected point to make about an...
The movie “Love Lies Bleeding” begins as one would expect. However, the film quickly divulges into a wild, thrilling narrative that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats. Initially, the movie appears to be a love story between two women: the free-spirited Jackie (Katy O’Brien) and...
Release Date:the 14th of March 2024 If the name was not already takenLove Lies Bleedingcould have been titledBodies Bodies Bodies. Flesh was prevalent throughout Rose Glass’s directorial debut, the psychological horror thrillerSaint Maud(2019). Some of the gruesome images included burnt skin on...
Ed Harris is excellent as the villain of Love Lies Bleeding. The fantastic chemistry between Kristen Stewart and Katy M. O'Brian helps carry the film. The sound design of Love Lies Bleeding is a notable highlight. Cons The graphic nature of the film could be too much for some. Lou's...
Love Lies Bleeding’s ending is the thematic crux of the entire film, bringing together the different elements of queerness that the film engages with, while also cementing its place in the tradition of lesbian cinema. ThroughoutLove Lies Bleedingthere are discussions of power and monstrosity with...
Considering how radically different Love Lies Bleeding is from Saint Maud, Glass already appears chameleonic and uncompromising in her filmmaking vision. Frenetic and obsessive, this is still a love story amid the gore and slick of body oil – a heart-pounding, iron-pumping descent into the head...
Love Lies Bleedingmakes up for its weaker points with its visual style and ferocious sexual tension and action. Glass leans into the fantasy aspect, blurring the lines of reality as only she is capable of doing. It makes everything all the more surreal and exciting as the story builds suspen...
British director Rose Glass understands what makes for a compelling psychological thriller. She debuted her first feature film, “Saint Maud,” in 2019 at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews, and now her sophomore effort, “Love Lies Bleeding,” is a fantastic companion piece ...