Kristen Stewart ’s highly-lauded new thriller, Love Lies Bleeding , will soon be available to stream free for Max subscribers. Rose Glass’s film for A24 will be available on the streaming platform from July 19, Warner Bros Discovery announced this week. The new film is an outrageous lesbian noir thriller set in the 1980s .
Twilight star Stewart plays Lou, an unkempt, chain-smoking manager of a New Mexico gym. Lou soon falls for Jackie (Katy O’Brian), a young homeless woman and bodybuilder. However, Lou’s psychotic father (Ed Harris), who owns the local gun range, and her sleazy wife-beating brother-in-law (Dave Franco), make their newfound romance difficult.
Following its premiere at Sundance Film Festival on January 20, Love Lies Bleeding received a raft of glowing reviews. On the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes , it has a near-perfect score of 94 per cent, meaning nearly all of the critics had positive things to say about it. In her four-star review for The Independent , Clarisse Loughrey called the film a “a hypnotic, steroid-fuelled fever dream.
” “Love Lies Bleeding bottles that hot, feverish, salvatory desire, only to shake it like soda pop and then ping off the cap,” she wrote. Glass is a British filmmaker who made an arresting debut in 2020 with the Scarborough-based religious horror Saint Maud starring Morfydd Clark ( The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power ). In a recent interview with Net-A-Porter , Stewart called out Hollywood for its “p.
