Kristen Stewart gets buff vengeance in this trailer for Love Lies Bleeding
Kristen Stewart falls for a bodybuilder involved with a bad crowd in Rose Glass' new movie
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There’s not a single thing about the premise for Saint Maud director Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding that does not sound awesome: It stars Kristen Stewart as the manager of a gym who falls in love with an aspiring bodybuilder named Jackie (Katy O’Brian) who gets involved with a bad crowd—specifically the criminal father of Stewart’s character, played by a longhaired Ed Harris (Ed Longharris). Together, they embark on some kind of quest for vengeance while dodging bad guys and law enforcement guys.
This first trailer for Love Lies Bleeding jacks everything up (that’s a bodybuilding joke), looking darker, sweeter, more violent, and also maybe wackier than that premise implied. Katy O’Brian does a lot of muscly posing, Dave Franco pops up as a dirtbag working at a gun range, Kristen Stewart blind-fires her gun from behind cover like she’s in a Gears Of War, Kristen Stewart stares longingly at all the muscly posing, Ed Harris whips his long hair around, and Stewart and O’Brian go on a violent vengeful rampage for love… but then the body of the person they killed and wrapped in a rug starts moving! You’ve gotta see what that’s about.
Love Lies Bleeding will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival early next year before opening in regular non-festival theaters in the spring. In addition to Stewart, O’Brian, Franco, and Harris, it also features Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov. Also, while we’re generally optimistic on all of this, what’s the read on “revenge gets ripped” as a tagline? Feels a bit silly, but we could be convinced otherwise. And yeah, we did say “buff vengeance” in the headline, but we’re not the ones who made this movie and chose that tagline. Our standards are different.
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Barsanti talking about “our standards”. lmao
I’m sure it’s the music and the neon but I’m getting vibes of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive from the trailer. I mean that as a compliment.
Looks like a pulpier version of Drive (and that’s saying something) for sure. Could be fun.
Same. I was actually looking for his name in the trailer until I remembered that Rose Glass was the director, a thing I’d learned from Katy O’Brian’s IG, which I follow solely for the purpose of staying up to date on movies and for no other reason please don’t tell my wife.
There’s a not-0% chance your wife is following her too.
Wouldn’t rule it out.
I think “revenge gets ripped” sucks as a tagline but the general preposterousness of the whole thing is more the point, whether that translates into fun or an onerous attempt at fun remains to be seen. In any case, Ed Harris is a ham, so roles where he gets to be a ham instead of having to pretend he isn’t being a ham are good fits for himham. If the full movie would fit on a double bill with The Bad Batch then I’d be into it.
“Vengeance Doesn’t Skip Leg Day”
“Do You Even Revenge, Bro?”
Revenge both bulks up and tones.
“This summer…she picks things up…and she puts them down!”
“She Puts the ‘Dead’ in ‘Deadlift’”
eh. I don’t think I’ve enjoyed a single thing Kristen Stewart has ever done, so I’ll pass.
Crimes of the Future is great, and she’s great in it.
I see that she’s bringing the Kristin Stewart Dead-Eyed Stare ™ “A” game in that header photo. Bravo.She’s a Karate woman, she bleeds on in the inside!
The look of someone experiencing a case of perpetual painful sh*ts (with just a touch of sweaty panic).
Yer know the thing about a Kristen Stewart – she’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
She was pretty good as a kid in Panic Room and I think Adventureland was the best movie/performance I’ve seen from her. (And I’d add a deep cut: Certain Women, a film with three distinct segments and the one with Stewart and Lily Gladstone was easily the highlight). Pretty much everything else I’ve seen from her, she’s a non-entity.
Certain Women is one of the best films of the past twenty years.
She was excellent as Diana.
She was good in that underwater movie. And that xmas movie. I really like her but I seem to be in the minority.
She’s one of those actors who (evidently) really needs to connect with the material, and probably the director, in order to give a good performance. And she’s given some great ones. If not, then she just kinda zones out and phones it in (see: Twilight—or rather, don’t).
I liked her in Charlie’s Angels.
I feel like she is a person acting like a person with a personality in that movie.
Why does every opinion at this site suck so hard now
Straight white men
“Kristin Stewart is a bad actress” is no longer a good take. We all know you watched YT breakdowns (or gifs of them, more like) that showed you her acting tics in vampire movies. She’s evolved as an actress since then, and was great in Underwater and Happiest Season.
I’ve never in my life watched a “YT breakdown” whatever that is. This isn’t even a comment on her acting. The movies she chooses to work in, I have no enjoyed. She was fine.
I enjoy Robert Pattinson.
I’m there with you. Stewart does not sound “awesome.”
I would watch every Kristen Stewart movie back to back with no breaks, if it meant self-important worthless comment like this one would no longer exist.I don’t even like Kristen Stewart.
played by a longhaired Ed Harris (Ed Longharris).
Ta-dum tish!
Revenge gets Riffed
And Raffed
In the sequel, Kristen Stewart can BE the bodybuilder!
Wasn’t there a rumor that Kristen was working to add a second expression to her repertoire? Dead-eyed stare is great and all, but I think moving just a single facial muscle would put her over the top.
What a hilarious and original joke!You’re really really really really really really funny!And handsome!
China didn’t called her Facial Paralycis Lady for nothing
There are fewer jokes about Kristen Stewart than faces she has.Congrats your worse at sarcasm than the person you made of fun of for acting is at acting.
Looks like some massively enjoyable trash (a la Wild Things or Only God Forgives) and it’s great to see Katy O’Brian get more of a spotlight. Count me in.
It’s funny that you mention Only God Forgives, since I was getting a Drive vibe from the trailer. That may just be a more optimistic way of saying the same thing.Seems like it could be a nasty, intense crime thriller, and Ed Harris is always a fun villain.
I’m indifferent to Stewart but sign me up for this Katy O’Brian person. Also Ed Harris makes a great Crypt Keeper.
Thelma and Lousie but with lesbians. Stewart knows she is such an unlikable repugnant person that she has to pretend to be lesbian to stay relevant.
“There’s not a single thing about the premise for Saint Maud director Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding that does not sound awesome: It stars Kristen Stewart-” i’m out already
Finally, the sequel to Love, Actually that we have all been waiting for!
Oh, I guess it will kill Stewart to think of her with another (wo)man.
this looks fucking nuts – I’m so in!
Looks dope.
In retrospect Kristen Stewart possibly should have retired after she got to play Joan Jett. She isn’t going to do anything cooler than that
It looks like she’s still playing Joan Jett.
very excited to watch this movie for the plot
Now I have anxiety something bad will happen to Katy O’Brian’s character.
a longhaired Ed Harris (Ed Longharris)A fictional character named “Ed Harris” played by a real person named “Ed Longharris”?Reminds me of the one actor from Westworld and Top Gun: Maverick.
Not enough Elton John in this trailer
As hard as “Revenge gets ripped…”, tried to get me to skip this film, even if ironic, it’s right up my alley so it’s a definite watch.
While everybody is teeing off on Kristen Stewart, I’d stick my neck out and say Katy O’Brian’s performance might have been the only thing in Quantumania that I actually enjoyed. She was similarly a bright spot in the slog that was the third season of The Mandalorian.
Actually, I may now be building a case against this movie, since so far, she seems to be a great part of otherwise not-so-great projects.
Holy jeez I just looked up who Katy O’Brian was…she’s absolutely JACKED. New gym inspiration unlocked. She was in the Mandalorian apparently, but did they really just have her wear an Imperial uniform? Like she wasn’t allowed to tear it off at any point and fight 20 dudes at once and win? She looks to be an amazing (and non-problematic) replacement for Gina Carano’s character.
I am all in for violent lesbian movies. Bottoms was the only film I’ve seen in the theater since before Covid and I may have to see about this one too.
Count me among those who think Buff Justice is a better title than Love Lies Bleeding.
Guns, gyms and probably muscle cars? Not here for this one. Too much of that in my town. Slick Hollywooders sure like to romanticize this American staple.