Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

IN COLLABORATION WITH TRONDHEIM PRIDE!

In the American Southwest in the late 80s, itinerant bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O’Brian) shows up to town, and passive and troubled gym manager Lou (Kirsten Stewart) is immediately hypnotized and smitten by her physicality and presence. As their passionate and flawed relationship soon explode with sex and drugs, Lou’s violent family and troubling past bubble to the surface, threatening to destroy not only their blossoming love but their very lives as well.

Love Lies Bleeding is a powerful and entertaining crime-thriller from impressive newcomer Rose Class, who debuted with her magic-realist horror film Saint Maud in 2019. Love Lies Bleeding steps away from that claustrophobic subjective horror and instead utilizes many of the same techniques to evoke a different brand of magic realism, amidst traumatic memories, shocking violence, and drug insanity; the result is a fun, funny, and unpredictable joyride with powerful performances from Kirsten Stewart - now fully freed from the Twilight-taint and a proven quality actress - and Katy O’Brian, whose amazing physicality and emotional instability steals every scene she’s in. With a cast that also includes a weathered and dangerous Ed Harris and a sleazy and despicable Dave Franco, writer-director and blossoming auteur Rose Glass proves herself not only in control of cinematography and storytelling, but also able to consistently bring out memorable performances from a solid cast.

Love Lies Bleeding deserves to be seen on the big screen, and Trondheim Film Society is proud to announce the cinema premiere of this hidden gem for the first and possibly only time in Trondheim!

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