NOMINEE: Best Feature (Rose Glass) Berlin FF 2024.
Is LOVE LIES BLEEDING (L L B) so unique in its B Grade skin, there are few films it could easily be compared with? Possibly, nothing comes to mind immediately.
The outlandishness of yet another sexy, queer romp in L L B brings to mind the recent DRIVE AWAY DOLLS, but they are very different films. Kirsten Stewart (Lou) gets the chance to dive back into aspects of her THE RUNAWAYS (2010) mould. She is wonderfully magnetic here but Anna Barryshnikov playing Lou's love interest, Daisy, is equally as mesmerising. Ed Harris (Lou Sr) is the B Grade essential ingredient, much like flour is to bread. And then there is the chaotic, surprising, concluding turn of events. It detracts for some, it seems, but not for me.
LOVE LIES BLEEDING is arthouse, B Grade, high velocity entertainment. This type of film is rarely made these days. For those of us who saw SAINT MAUD, (2019) it should have alerted us that Rose Glass is a seriously good film-maker. 10GUMS.
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