Love Lies Bleeding

Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding is a feverish collision of romance, obsession, and violence. Set in a gritty 1980s American landscape, the film follows a bodybuilder and a gym manager (Kristen Stewart) whose love spirals into something dangerous and intoxicating. Glass crafts a queer thriller that pulses with raw physicality and emotional intensity, reminding us how desire can become both a source of liberation and a force of destruction. — Fay Nass, Queering Cinema curator

Hot, yummy stuff… Part of what’s enjoyable about Loves Lies Bleeding is how Glass deploys her allusions and, with her two beautifully synchronized leads, distills what’s pleasurable from them while leaving behind old ugly ideas about women. Glass looks back and she looks forward, going dark and oh-so-sweet in a thriller in which the greatest danger — and thrill — is finally love.

Manohla Dargis, New York Times

a sweaty, sensual, dangerous exercise…for that, it’s a must-see.

Micca Caporale, Chicago Reader

Visceral and heady, this is a blood-soaked, all-American fable that’s as if Thelma And Louise literally went on steroids. Rose Glass is a force to be reckoned with.

Laura Venning, Empire magazine