WORLD PREMIERE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2024
EUROPEAN PREMIERE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2024
A film by Rose Glass
Produced by Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman
A24 / Film4
Starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Dave Franco and Anna Baryshnikov
A romance fuelled by ego, desire and the American Dream.
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: Following her critically acclaimed first feature Saint Maud, Rose Glass makes her Sundance Film Festival debut with a bombastic, larger-than-life sophomore effort. An off-the-wall, rambunctious lesbian love story crashes into a family drama of the darkest ilk in this muscular thriller. As a small-town gym and a ravine just outside city limits become the playground for all flavors of mischief and mayhem, a heightened Americana sensibility and Glass’ deliciously distinctive, bold style create a world that is at once familiar and entirely fresh. Helmed by Sundance regular Kristen Stewart (Speak, Adventureland, Certain Women) and Katy M. O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding is somehow as sweetly romantic about loyalty as it is doggedly hedonistic. With a vaulting imagination and its roots in deeply human places, this film packs a gut punch unlike any other.—AH
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ "jaw-dropping, gruesome psychosexual thriller… it’s a scoff-it-down dollop of outrageous gourmet pulp” - Robbie Collins, The Telegraph
“a sexy, brutal, violent, kinetic piece of filmmaking” - Roger Eberts
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ "‘this is a film that’s pure “WTF?” in the best way possible’" - IGN
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ "A dark grindhouse thriller on steroids… Horridly violent and lethally smart” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ “a lesbian neo-noir drenched in brooding nightscapes, violent crime and more hardcore KStew cool than has ever been packaged in such a potent concentrate” - The Hollywood Reporter
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ “a swoon worthy queer romance” - Empire
“Glass introduced her newest movie to a roaring crowd at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, leaving a trail of blood, sweat and even some cheers” - The Wrap
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ “a brash and exhilarating romp” - The Times
“premiered to a whooping late-night crowd at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival … It’s a brutal, bloody, and discombobulating ride, but boy, is it a blast” - Entertainment Weekly
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ “A twisted female empowerment fantasy like no other” - Metro
“a Gothic-tinged tale of passion and pride burning brightly amidst the embers of the eighties” - The Playlist
“a thrillingly grimy, seedy, Americana-and-fluid-soaked body-horror noir that’s unabashedly queer and winningly deranged” - Slash Film
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ “These queer women aren’t nice, they aren’t clean, they aren’t good people, and I love that.” - Out Magazine
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ “…the film does all this without ever once pauding to twiddle its thumbs. Its too busy pouring kerosene on the evidence and lighting a match” - The I (UK)
“The infectious wildness of Love Lies Bleeding is simply a turn-on”. - Harpers Bazaar
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ “one of the most electrifying, jaw-dropping films of 2024” - Collider
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - “Rose Glass’s gore-tastic new neo-noir” - The Evening Standard