Rent Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
3.4 of 5 from 209 ratings
1h 41min
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- Synopsis:
- From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story: reclusive gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) falls hard for Jackie (Katy O'Brian), 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.
- Actors:
- Anna Baryshnikov, Kristen Stewart, Dave Franco, Katy M. O'Brian, Jena Malone, Eldon Jones, Ed Harris, Catherine Haun, Orion Carrington, Matthew Blood-Smyth, Keith Jardine, Jerry G. Angelo, Tait Fletcher, Jamie Javier Guerreo, Roger Ivens, Kim S. Monti, David DeLao, Mikandrew Perdaris, Hilary Fleming, Lontrell Anderson
- Directors:
- Rose Glass
- Producers:
- Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman
- Writers:
- Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska
- Studio:
- Lionsgate Films
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 22/07/2024
- Run Time:
- 104 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description, English Dolby Atmos
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary with Director Rose Glass and Writer Weronika Tofilska
- Sex, Asteroids and Codependency
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Reviews (4) of Love Lies Bleeding
Energetic revenge thriller with touches of black humour - Love Lies Bleeding review by PD
This one veers from noir to revenge thriller to horror to pitch-black comedy via moments of magic realism, with the result that the overall effect is something of a mess, but there’s never a dull moment, and the film pulses with an irresistible energy. Set in a small desert town in rural grunge New Mexico in 1989, the film centres around the extreme, often violent, intensity of the relationship between gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) and Jackie (Katy O'Brian). There's serious chemistry between the two, with Stewart investing the role with an avid hunger, stripping away her normally cool façade to give the film a charged centre of vulnerability. The film starts off lean and mean, then grows slowly and steadily more delirious, particularly as the other major character, Lou’s estranged father, Lou Sr., played by Ed Harris, becomes increasingly important. Unfortunately, as this happens our investment in the central couple – both rather underwritten – vanishes by the minute, overtaken as the film then is with rather too much noise and nastiness for my liking, although the brief bursts of Anna Baryshnikov, stealing scenes as an excitable gossip, are very well done. Glass forces some big, but rather silly swings in the last act (the biggest of which is quite literally too big), but by this time the plot has run out of gas, and only some amusing light touches involving cats and carpets rescue the heaviness of the action. All in all both watchable but ultimately forgettable.
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Noir Thriller - Different And Splendid - Love Lies Bleeding review by GI
With a Grindhouse vibe this noir thriller is great not least due to the top performance from Kristen Stewart, an actor of considerable talent. She plays Lou, the manager of a small town gym, where she has the mundane duties of clearing blocked toilets and dealing with the testosterone fuelled customers. Then into her life comes Jackie (Katy O'Brien), a gay body builder, devastatingly attractive and passing through on her way to a competition in Las Vegas. They begin a relationship and fall in love but Lou introduces her to steroids which affects Jackie in a surreal way especially when the two of them have to contend with Lou's nasty brother in law (Dave Franco) and his abuse of her sister (Jena Malone) and Lou's crimelord father (Ed Harris), a seedy gun range owner with a very bad past. This is a tale of murder, revenge all wrapped around a theme of feminine control. It goes in directions you'll not expect and is a constant joy, very often because it is firmly tongue in cheek and humorous. What's particularly great here is that whilst it goes over-the-top it also remains very subtle mostly due to the fantastically nuanced performance of Stewart.
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A film of two halves - Love Lies Bleeding review by MB
This movie starts off really well in true American-indie style: great broody synth soundtrack, unique characters, a sense of emptiness in the setting and a really nasty bad guy (a glorious Ed Harris). But then... the 'big event' happens about halfway through and it all goes downhill from there with no sense of direction, in what is quite frankly, a chaotic mess of a second half. Probably deserves 2.5 but nearer 3 stars than 2. Just.
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