After his first feature film, slow burn and disturbing Saint Maude, Pink glass gives his all with Love lies bleedinghero Kristen Stewart AND Katy O’Brian. Stewart plays Lou, a bored gym manager in the middle of nowhere. When Jackie, a bodybuilder, comes to town and shows up at Lou’s gym, the two immediately fall in love.
But Lou’s family and his troubled past quickly get in the way of their new relationship, and both Jackie and Lou soon find themselves in trouble. This movie seems so raw and crass, showing a dark side of love and the limits people go to for the people they care about. Kristen Stewart’s acting is fantastic and I really felt for Lou.
Love lies bleeding he exaggerates in every way, sometimes to the point of comedy. There are some great elements that made me roll my eyes and question the intended tone of some scenes. But despite some mistakes, this highly stylistic, extremely violent and sometimes unpleasantly sexy film is a tragic love story worth watching.
Here’s the description from Sundance:
Lou, the lonely gym manager, falls in love with Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed to Las Vegas to pursue her dream. But their love sparks violence, drawing them into the network of Lou’s crime family.
After his critically acclaimed first feature film Saint Maud, Rose Glass makes its Sundance Film Festival debut with an explosive and stunning sophomore feature. An offbeat, turbulent lesbian romance collides with family drama of the darkest kind in this muscular thriller. As a small-town gymnasium and a ravine just outside the city limits become the playground for all manner of mischief and mayhem, a heightened American sensibility and Glass’s delightfully distinctive and bold style create a world that is equally familiar and completely new time. Directed by Sundance regular Kristen Stewart (Speak, Adventure Land, Certain women) and Katy O’Brian, Love lies bleeding it is somehow as sweetly romantic about loyalty as it is stubbornly hedonistic. With an unbridled imagination and its roots in deeply human places, this film packs a gut punch unlike any other.
by Corrin Rausch
Source: Geek Tyrant
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