Director: Rose Glass
A small-town gym manager and a drifting bodybuilder collide in Rose Glass's neon-lit 2024 thriller Love Lies Bleeding, a film that turns obsession, muscle, and desperation into a single combustible mix.
What is Love Lies Bleeding about?
Lou keeps the books and mops the floors at a dead-end gym somewhere in the American Southwest, watching the days repeat themselves until Jackie walks in. Jackie is only passing through, chasing a bodybuilding competition in Las Vegas, but the two women fall for each other fast and hard. Their romance should be simple. It is not. Lou's family carries old debts and older secrets, and the closer Jackie gets to Lou's world, the more those secrets start pulling both women toward violence neither one signed up for. What begins as a chance meeting behind a gym counter turns into a spiral of loyalty, protection, and consequence set against sun-bleached desert towns and dim, sweat-soaked interiors.
Cast & crew
Kristen Stewart plays Lou with a coiled, watchful energy, while Katy O'Brian brings physical presence and surprising tenderness to Jackie. Ed Harris, Dave Franco, Jena Malone, and Anna Baryshnikov round out a cast that leans into the story's grimy, small-town texture rather than glamorizing it.
Context & significance
Director Rose Glass, known for the unsettling character study Saint Maud, brings a similarly heightened visual style here, mixing crime-thriller mechanics with a genuine, unguarded love story. The film premiered in 2024 and quickly built a following for its bold tonal swings, moving between tender intimacy and sudden bursts of dread within the same scene.
Where & how to watch
Love Lies Bleeding is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, presented with a Farsi-friendly interface built for Persian-speaking audiences. The page itself is open to read without signing in; watching the film requires only a quick login.