Kristen Stewart’s Sensual Thriller on Streaming Is the Perfect Way To Celebrate Valentine’s Day

With Valentine’s Day simply across the nook, we’re right here to remind you that the best queer thriller is out there on Max in your streaming enjoyment. What higher approach to have fun the vacation of affection than with a fightback at heteronormativity and the patriarchy? Toss in Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian, and also you’ve acquired successful by means of Rose Glass’s sophomore function, Love Lies Bleeding. Whereas the film — at its core — is a gritty love story combined with a criminal offense drama, there’s additionally a fantastical ingredient that many gained’t see coming — though those that caught the director’s debut movie, Saint Maud, completely know the place the vibes got here from. With an ensemble that features Dave Franco, Jena Malone, and Ed Harris, you’ll need to add Love Lies Bleeding to your V-Day watchlist.

Jackie (O’Brian) is the brand new lady in a dusty, quiet Texas city. An aspiring physique builder, she’s simply passing by means of however finally ends up staying somewhat longer after securing a job at a gun range owned by Lou Sr. (Harris). Whereas coaching for a contest in Las Vegas, she turns into a member on the native gymnasium that’s managed by Lou Sr.’s daughter, aptly additionally named Lou (Stewart). Jackie and Lou shortly hit it off and embark on a steamy, sexually-driven relationship that additionally occurs to be fueled by steroid utilization. In the meantime, Lou Jr. is making an attempt to step out of her father’s crime-driven shadow whereas additionally defending her sister, Beth (Malone), from her unhinged husband’s (Franco) unstable rage. What finally ends up culminating is a sensual, roid-driven storyline as the 2 lovers do every thing they’ll to flee the Lone Star state and maintain their relationship collectively.

Rose Glass Took On a Totally different Style with ‘Love Lies Bleeding’

After helming a handful of brief movies, Glass took an enormous step ahead in her profession with the 2019 launch of Saint Maude. Additional solidifying the psychological horror flick as her personal, Glass additionally penned the function’s script, along with her work acknowledged on the BAFTAs for Outstanding British Film and Excellent Debut by a British Author, Director or Producer. Starring Morfydd Clark (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy), the mind-bending manufacturing facilities round a devoutly non secular caretaker who has dedicated herself to saving the soul of her newest affected person.

Along with her debut manufacturing solidifying her title as an on-the-rise filmmaker and author to observe, Glass knew that she needed to delve into one thing fully completely different along with her sophomore function. Talking with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff at Love Lies Bleeding’s Sundance premiere last year, Glass defined,

“I feel going into it, I simply knew that I needed to attempt one thing completely different and take some dangers and problem myself. I knew I needed to make one thing enjoyable and sort of bombastic and pulpy. I did not have a transparent view of the story but.”

As those that try the thriller on Max will come to find, Glass did precisely that and delivered an extremely stable and entertaining follow-up function.

Love Lies Bleeding is now streaming on Max.

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