thread of gooily psychedelic lesbian bodybuilding crime dramedy LOVE LIES BLEEDING (2024), starring kristen stewart & katy o’brian, directed by rose glass

“mutant man,” nona hendryx, gina x performance, colourbox, martin rev…. soundtrack is def so deliberately put together that it is its own character in the film

Imagine my shock at hearing "Transformatino" but not, say, "With Every Beta of My Heart."

Beat even!

Anyway, the pacing gets pokey in the last third, and I preferred Drive-Away Dolls, but, wow, two lewd lesbian comedies out in the same month!

Truly a moment. Plus this and Lisa Frankenstein made it a mini-1989 boom too!

Also even though it was just in the trailer using "Smalltown Boy" in that was amazing too.

and, boy, does O'Brian look like Rachel Ticotin!

ivy so otm. this was so much fun

i didn't like this at all but don't want to hate on it, because i'm generally in favour of this kind of trashy messy fun and lots of the things i didn't like are perhaps idiosyncratic to me; i just can't get into kristen stewart's acting (had the same problem with the last cronenberg) also the neon pink and blue underlit grainy matte color grading/cinematography has reached a level of saturation where it gets a knee jerk neg reaction. the (awesome) poster had me thinking it would be an erotic thriller so i was surprised it was more of a early tarantino-style hyperviolent "everyone fucks up" plot with romantic leads versus the creepier/perverted psychological verhoeven style

stewart is once again acting with her fingers but its to phenomenal effect here, felt every twitch of her brain in trying to give up smoking as her whole world collapsed

this is the best perf I’ve seen Stewart give by a long stretch

up there with personal shopper for me

Spencer aside, I've enjoyed Stewart in just about every picture she's been in. She has a talent for looking simultaneously spooked and alert and sad in character.

looking forward to checking this out tbh

This is great

Ed Harris's character was much better than I expected

I thought this was wonderful. The end was such a great pay off

another great thing: shot of the trash full of cigarettes and egg yolks