LOVE LIES BLEEDING - Kölner Kino Nächte

LOVE LIES BLEEDING

US/ UK 2023 - 104 min - OmU - FSK 16 - Director: Rose Glass

Jackie wants to become a successful bodybuilder and is on her way to Las Vegas to take part in a competition. On her way, she ends up in a small town in New Mexico where she meets Lou, a secretive gym manager. Lou's father is an arms dealer and pulls the strings in the criminal milieu.Jackie and Lou fall in love, but their love provokes violence and the two become deeply entangled in the web of Lou's family's machinations.
After the success of Saint Maud , Love Lies Bleeding is Rose Glass' second film.Dreamlike and nightmarish at the same time, it tells of love, revenge and the magic of the endless, lonely desert roads in the USA.

As part of the Cologne Cinema Nights