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‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Review: Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian in a Queer Romantic Noir That Goes to Extremes
Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian team up for a thriller set in 1989 in rural grunge Nevada, a backdrop for sex, murder, and female bodybuilding.
There was a time, in the ’90s, when indie film noir thought it was being hip by imitating the trappings of ’40s thrillers — the dark shadows, Venetian blinds and “slinky” femme fatales. It’s set in a small desert town in rural grunge Nevada in 1989, and from the opening moments, which take place at the warehouse workout gym where Lou ( Kristen Stewart) toils away as a manager (not too lofty a position — in the first scene, she unplugs a stuffed toiled with her gloved hand), the movie lets you taste the raw Western sleaze of its world as surely as Mailer’s “The Executioner’s Song” did. For even as we’re hanging on for dear life, watching Lou wrap bodies in carpets or seeing the most innocent person onscreen get executed, the movie creates a vision it sticks to.
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