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‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Review: Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian in a Queer Romantic Noir That Goes to Extremes
As Lou, Kristen Stewart has lank messy hair that hangs down in chopped bangs and a mullet by default, and she’s lean and desperate-looking. Approached for an after-work rendezvous by Daisy , a sexy cuddlebug, Lou turns her down, and we can tell why. She sleeps with Daisy sometimes, but now she’s waiting for something — someone — to wake her up. Stewart invests the role with an avid hunger, stripping away her normally cool façade to give the film a charged center of vulnerability.
But then JJ crosses a line. Beth lands in the hospital, with the left side of her face so cut and swollen she looks like the Elephant Woman. We assume, because good neo-noirs like “A Simple Plan” and “Nocturnal Animals” have encouraged us to assume, that Lou and Jackie will take this situation into their own hands and commit a crime they’ll spend the rest of the movie trying to hide from the police.
There’s a reason why “Love Lies Bleeding,” which premiered tonight at Sundance, is in the festival’s Midnight section. As the movie goes on, it generates enough ultra-violence and gonzo twists toa midnight movie. Does that mean that the film violates its noir roots? For a while, yes, and ultimately no. For even as we’re hanging on for dear life, watching Lou wrap bodies in carpets or seeing the most innocent person onscreen get executed, the movie creates a vision it sticks to.
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