150 Word Review: 'Love Lies Bleeding' (2024)
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Love Lies Bleeding is a New Mexico gothic romance about two losers falling in love. This is Rose Glass' second movie, and watching it is like waking up in soaked sheets after a fever breaks.
Kristen Stewart plays Lou, the daughter of a local crime boss who works a dead-end job. She's a chainsmoking bundle of nerves, a nobody by choice drifting through life until she's thunderstruck by a hitchhiking bodybuilder working out at the gym she manages. Her name is Jackie, and she's a she-hulk with big dreams. Katy M. O'Brian is swole and fragile as Jackie. Their chemistry is hot. The human heart is a sauna. As Lou's dad, Ed Harris is a homicidal gun nut with an elderly hippie's haircut. Jackie gets hooked on steroids, violence, and sex. Meanwhile, Lou plots a coup.
In Love Lies Bleeding, bodies bulge, swell, and transform into terrifying and beautiful shapes.
Bonus 150 Word Review: ‘St. Maud’ (2020)
Fear the fanatic. In the stylish horror movie St. Maud, we are introduced to Katie, a meek nurse who turns to Christ after failing to save the life of a patient. Her conversion also inspires a name change: Maud. With her new faith and identity, she accepts a job caring for a dancer dying of cancer. The pair form an intimate bond that is broken, sending Maud down a path to madness. Unless she isn’t mad? God spoke to Moses and Joan of Arc. Why not her? Maud yearns for purpose and He hears all prayers.
Director Rose Glass’s debut feature film is a dark trance-like Mass where Maud’s obsessions are transformed into a crusade: save the dancer’s soul at all costs. Maud becomes a holy warrior, the devil her enemy. As the titular character, Morfydd Clark trembles with agony and ecstasy right up until the terrifying, jaw-dropping final moment.
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Just watched this! An absolute knockout!
I have to wait until this streams on Max.
Sounds good.