Kristen Stewart Queer Noir ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ to Open Glasgow Film Festival
Alex Ritman The 20th edition of the Glasgow Film Festival has landed one of Sundance’s most talked-about films for its opening night. “Love Lies Bleeding,” Rose Glass‘ queer romantic noir starring Kristen Stewart that earned critical acclaim in Park City, is set to raise the curtain on the event with its U.K.
premiere. The film follows “reclusive gym manager Lou (Stewart) who falls hard for Jackie (Katy O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream,” according to its official description. “But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.” Billing itself as “Scotland’s largest film festival,” the Glasgow Film Festival runs Feb.
28-March 10 at the Glasgow Film Theater, which itself is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, plus venues across the city.
Other world and international premieres include “Tummy Monster,” a hallucinogenic dark drama by Glasgow director Ciaran Lyons starring rising Scottish star Lorn Macdonald; the big screen adaptation of blackly comic novel“Bucky F*cking Dent” written by, directed by and starringDavid Duchovny; and a new restoration of “Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet,” the rarely seen documentary shot during the comedian’s 1975 tour of Ireland.
