A review of Rose Glass’s bodybuilder thriller ‘Love Lies Bleeding.’ Come for the Kristen Stewart thirst, stay for a freewheeling new entry to the queer neo-noir canon.
teases one kind of female fantasy: You see bulging biceps, sweat-slicked men striving for peak physical form. But’s romantic thriller isn’t that kind of movie, and it’s ultimately not the beefcakes who are the eye candy but the skinny mullet-sporting lesbian sweeping up.appears as Lou, a sullen gym manager plagued by a cigarette addiction and daddy issues — the kind of scrappy mutt in need of a new home.
but it’s one thing to be conducting a hushed affair with a repressed 19th-century ax murderer; it’s another to be licking protein shakes off an ’80s muscle mommy, sucking her toes, and thumbing through a volume of erotic short stories calledAt the gym, Lou meets Jackie , a spandex-clad bisexual drifter en route to Las Vegas for a bodybuilding competition; by the next day, they are U-Hauling.
The director devised the film’s premise to subvert Hollywood demand for strong female characters: “ was like, ‘Strong girl? Bodybuilding. Got it.’ Simple as that,” Stewart recounts to. The concept creates opportunity for long, indulgent shots of the body, the camera savoring every inch.
in which a high-femme gangster’s girlfriend named Violet switches teams , scheming with her lesbian ex-con lover Corky to run away with $2 million of Mafia money. gives you good reason to root for the female killers; the men they’re double-crossing are stooges, bastards, and homophobes. “Everyone knows your kind can’t be trusted. Fucking queers, you make me sick,” Violet’s boyfriend, Caesar, snarls at Corky once he discovers their big ploy.
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