A scintillatingly hot, totally toxic love affair that becomes a crime thriller, this queer romance is a flex. Our Love Lies Bleeding review:
a dreary and daunting “serious horror” that brought Morfydd Clark to the attention of the suits behind—appears on the surface to stray from the genre in which Glass debuted. Yet. Glass excels at crafting horrific images, moments of pure grotesquery and terror, and she pushes the boundaries of an otherwise grounded thriller-crime drama into something that resembles a gorgeous night terror. Sensuality oozes from every frame for a film that isn’t even terribly gratuitous during its sex scenes.
Easier said than done, between Jackie’s progressing mania and Lou Sr.’s ruthlessness not limited to those outside his own family. And then there’s the issue of a lone witness, Daisy, an eager young lesbian with an off-putting fixation on Lou. Daisy is played to unsettling effect by Anna Baryshnikov, who chews the scenery by the mouthful with her tar-stained chompers; it’s a performance that admirably induces enough second-hand embarrassment to tranquilize a horse.
As the walls close in on Jackie and Lou, Glass amps up the tension with tight, suffocating shots, propulsive editing and an absorbing score by Clint Mansell. At the center of it all is Jackie and Lou’s cacophonous romance, founded from the start on a foundation of Lou’s enabling and Jackie having an affair with Lou’s abusive brother-in-law. By all accounts, the gay Romeo and Juliet were doomed from the start.
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