Love Lies Bleeding announces release date on streaming platforms

June 28, 2024

A release date on streaming platforms has been announced for Love Lies Bleeding. (A24)

To the delight of LGBTQ+ fans around the world, Kristen Stewart’s critically acclaimed film Love lies bleeding has announced a release date on streaming platforms.

Director: Rose Glass of Saint MaudThe queer thriller received rave reviews after its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in January. Critics praised the “great chemistry” of lead actors Stewart and Katy O’Brien, which is evident in the numerous believable lesbian intimate scenes.

Set in the late 1980s, the hit lesbian film follows reclusive gym manager Lou (Stewart) who meets and falls in love with ambitious bodybuilder Jackie (O’Brian). Jackie arrives in Lou’s sleepy Nevada town on her way to a bodybuilding competition in Las Vegas, and the rest is history.

However, Lou’s father (Ed Harris), who owns a nearby shooting range, and her misogynistic brother-in-law (Dave Franco) make it difficult for the two to give in to their true feelings for each other.

Now, Love lies bleeding has a release date for “Max,” Warner Bros Discovery recently announced.

Love lies bleedingThe film’s tagline describes it as a “romance fueled by ego, desire and the American dream.” The film’s synopsis states that the couple’s passionate relationship “turns their love into violence and draws them deep into the web of Lou’s crime family.”

Elsewhere, Stewart will make her directorial debut in The chronology of waterafter he had previously refused to ever act in the film again if it did not raise the necessary funds to make it.

The actress and director recently announced details of her upcoming film adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 queer memoir, which is finally taking shape. The film is set to shoot in Latvia, Europe.

“I needed a kind of radical distance. I’m not a director yet. I have to make a student film. I can’t do that (in the US),” Stewart told Net-a-Porter.

Yuknavitch’s memoir deals with gender, violence, sexuality, family, addiction, self-destruction and survival – themes that Stewart feared might be “difficult to stomach” for viewers.

Love lies bleeding is available now on Prime Video and Apple TV+ and will be released on Max on July 19.