Director Rose Grass's gory sensibility is put to good use in this steroid-popping, hyper-violent love story
Director Rose Grass's gory sensibility is put to good use in this steroid-popping, hyper-violent love story
Katy O’Brian as Jackie, left, and Kristen Stewart as Lou in ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ is the kind of weird little film they don’t make anymore. Vile, bombastic, and slicked with sweat, this turbo-charged lesbian crime thriller is the second offering from director Rose Glass, who broke out with the 2019 indie horror. That film proved her unafraid to make you wrinkle your nose in disgust, a boldness that is put to good use in this steroid-popping, hyper-violent love story.
It’s set in a skid-mark corner of 1989 New Mexico and opens, appropriately enough, with one of our protagonists – the brooding gym attendant Lou – unblocking a clogged toilet.
As they try to protect each other from harm – and the prying eyes of Lou’s former squeeze, the irritating Daisy – Lou and Jackie’s infatuation with one another explodes into unhinged. The film adds fantastical touches to its neo-noir plotting, but it’s the unhealthy and desperately horny lesbian affair at its centre that lures you in.Glass films with a sort of sleazy hyperrealism, with an eye for both grotesque pops of violence and Cronenbergian body horror .
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