Love Lies Bleeding Is a Queer Crime Romance Without Much Spark

The new film Love Lies Bleeding (in theaters March 8) looks great. Director Rose Glass casts her New Mexico setting in a grimy light, dinginess cut through with slashes of red. That studied grit is eerily matched by Clint Mansell’s insistent score, all sexy drone and pulse. These rich aesthetics act in service of a hooky, risqué premise: Kristen Stewart plays a gym worker, Lou, who falls in love with a bodybuilder, Jackie (The Mandalorian’s Katy O’Brian), and the two soon find themselves caught up in a gruesome chain of criminal violence. As was true of many of its Sundance… Read Full Article