Jackie (Katy M. O'Brien) sits on the floor beside Lou (Kristen Stewart) in a gym in 'Love Lies Bleeding' (2024).
While Rose Glass’ 2019 feature debut, Saint Maud, was a daring vision full of horror, jarring imagery, and unrelenting suspense, no one could’ve expected her follow-up, Love Lies Bleeding, would be such a bold, exciting film cranking up those concepts to 11. In this stunning sophomore feature, Glass tells a love story seeped in blood and popping muscles. It's a dirty, sweaty, sexy feature that continuously builds in tension and is packed with unexpected moments.
Matching her ferocity and eclipsing it is O’Brian, who can quickly switch from a loving girlfriend to an instigator of great violence in a split second. While we understand Lou’s history and the darkness inherent in that past, Jackie is more of a wild card, a source of uncertainty in a film where everyone is already on edge. Early on, Lou gives Jackie steroids to help her prepare for an upcoming bodybuilding tournament, advising her to think of it as turning her into Popeye.
Glass makes Love Lies Bleeding a grimy affair, and nowhere is that more clear than in the supporting cast. Franco has never been such a creep, and he’s excellent at making the audience dislike JJ before he even appears on screen. Similarly reveling in the film’s greasy absurdity is Harris, who is balding, but with long hair on the sides, and almost always has a bug nearby for him to play with.
It’s also fascinating to see how Glass and co-writer Weronika Tofilska meld tones and styles throughout. Love Lies Bleeding is balancing between romance, thriller, and elements of horror, and it manages to do justice to all three. Even more impressive is how Glass and Tofilska constantly up the ante in all aspects, letting every piece of this story culminate in an unyielding third act.
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