LOVE LIES BLEEDING

Film Information

A crime and a romance — those American institutions that’ve animated the movies since the very beginning — Love Lies Bleeding is a fugitive tale that breaks the mold, at once dreamy and nightmarish, lurid and funny, laced with poison and lit with the magic of the high desert and the open road.

Rose Glass’s gleefully cinematic story follows Lou, a lonely gym worker who collides with an aspiring female bodybuilder-turned-outlaw, setting off a wild chain reaction in a small New Mexico town. The plot audaciously defies predictability as much as the filmmaking; Glass and a cast including Kristen Stewart, newcomer Katy M. O’Brian, Ed Harris, Dave Franco, and Jena Malone mix samplings of black comedy, queer crime, steamy pulp, family dramas, and revenge thrillers to explore the destructive and intoxicating forces of excess, ambition, and mad love.