Where Love Lies Bleeding ends up — full of psychedelic visions, blood-covered bodies and more than a fair amount of screaming — is very different from where the movie starts out.
That’s because the Kristen Stewart-led, Rose Glass-directed bodybuilding crime epic is a genre send-up in just about every way.
The film follows Lou (Stewart), a 20-something gym manager in New Mexico saddled with a homicidal, drug-smuggling dad (Ed Harris), and the ambitious but self-deluded Jackie (Katy M. O’Brian) on a rags-to-riches journey to a sort of bargain-bin Ms. Olympia.
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When Jackie swings into town on her way to a Las Vegas bodybuilding competition and meets the somewhat
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