Love Lies Bleeding has introduced a launch date on streaming platforms. (A24)
To the delight of LGBTQ+ followers all over the place, Kristen Stewart’s critically acclaimed movie Love Lies Bleeding has introduced a launch date on streaming platforms.
Directed by Rose Glass of Saint Maud, the queer thriller acquired rave opinions following its world premiere on the 2024 Sundance Movie Competition in January. Critics praised lead actors Stewart and Katy O’Brien’s “cracking chemistry”, evident within the plausible sapphic intimacy scenes, that are plentiful.
Set within the late Eighties, the hit lesbian movie follows reclusive fitness center supervisor Lou (Stewart) who meets and falls exhausting for bold bodybuilder Jackie (O’Brian). Jackie rolls into Lou’s sleepy Nevada city on her method to a Las Vegas bodybuilding competitors, and the remainder is historical past.
Nevertheless, Lou’s father (Ed Harris), who owns a close-by taking pictures vary, and her misogynistic brother-in-law (Dave Franco) make it tough for the pair to behave on their true emotions for one another.
Now, Love Lies Bleeding has a launch date on Max, Warner Bros Discovery lately introduced.
Love Lies Bleeding’s tagline describes it as a “romance fuelled by ego, want and the American Dream”. The movie’s synopsis notes that the pair’s passionate relationship sees “their love igniting violence, pulling them deep into the online of Lou’s felony household”.
Elsewhere, Stewart is ready to make her directorial debut in The Chronology of Water, after beforehand refusing to ever act once more if the movie didn’t garner the required funding to be made.
The actor-turned-director lately shared particulars about her upcoming rendition of the 2011 queer memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, which seems to be lastly coming to fruition. The movie is ready to be shot in Latvia, Europe.
“I wanted a type of radical detachment. I’m not a director but. I have to make a scholar movie. I can’t do this [in the US],” Stewart instructed Internet-a-Porter.
Yuknavitch’s memoir discusses gender, violence, sexuality, household, dependancy, self-destruction, and survival; matters Stewart was fearful is likely to be “exhausting to look at” for viewers.
Love Lies Bleeding is offered to look at now on Prime Video and Apple TV+, and can arrive on Max on 19 July.