Love Lies Bleeding is a 2024 romantic thriller film directed by Rose Glass starring Kristen Stewart, and Katy O’Brian.
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- Love Lies Bleeding is a 2024 romantic thriller.
- The film directed by Rose Glass from.
- She co-wrote the screenplat with Weronika Tofilska.
- The film is a co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States.
- Set in the 1980s, it chronicles the relationship between a reclusive gym manager with a crime family and an ambitious bodybuilder.
- Love Lies Bleeding premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 20.
- It was released theatrically in the United States by A24 on March 8, 2024.
- It is set for release in the United Kingdom by Lionsgate UK on May 3, 2024.
- Like her character, Katy O’Brian used to be a competitive bodybuilder in real life.
- The film began test screening in February 2023.
- According to one account, the “audience was having visceral reactions to the gore, blood and puking throughout” during a screening in New York City.
- Ed Harris originally wore very long hair extensions as a joke, but the director decided to keep them in the film.
- Principal photography began in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in June 2022. Production concluded by August 2022.
- Katy O Brien learned about her role through social media, when a fan sent her a post with a casting call for a queer bodybuilder.
- Second feature film directed by Rose Glass.
- The film is a co-production between Film4 and A24, with the latter being the US distributor for Glass’ debut Saint Maud (2019).
- The film premiered to a standing ovation at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
- The title comes from a on a plant’s name (Amaranthus caudatus).
- Ed Harris and Jena Malone also played father and daughter in “Stepmom” (1998), opposite Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts.
- Kristen Stewart and Jena Malone both previously appeared in “Into the Wild” (2007).
- Jena Malone’s character Beth is a victim of abuse. Malone got her start playing a victim of abuse in Anjelica Huston’s directorial debut, Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), for which she won critical acclaim as a child actor.
- It is the second film to be directed by English filmmaker Rose Glass.
- Kristen Stewart first mentioned her involvement in the film in March 2022, as she was a fan of Glass’ previous work, Saint Maud.
- Her casting was confirmed in April.
- Anna Baryshnikov, Katy O’Brian, Dave Franco, Ed Harris, and Jena Malone joined the cast in June.
- O’Brian said in an interview that she had to audition for the part, her first leading role, six times.
- Principal photography began Albuquerque, New Mexico, in June 2022.
- Production concluded by August 2022.
- Its European premiere on February 18, 2024 at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in the Berlinale Special Gala section.
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of 96 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.8/10.
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