Until recently, sapphic romances generally meant furtive nods in a corset. Today’s queer offerings are fun, unbuttoned – and climate-appropriate
in which the leads, Lou and Jackie , have a screaming match on a tennis court. “I wish I never met you!” shrieks Jackie, blasting bullets into the sky. Two minutes later they’re embracing. “What’s wrong with me?” she asks. “There is absolutelywrong with you,” Lou whispers to her murderous girlfriend, greased hair framing her face, bomber jacket slung around both shoulders.
In Love Lies Bleeding, the sapphic gaze is everywhere. It’s there in the cigarette dangling from Stewart’s mouth as she cracks open an egg for her lover. It’s in the cut-off shirts and scuffed trainers and soft skin and taut muscle. It’s there when Jackie asks “I was maybe going to ask if I could crash here for a couple nights?” after meeting one time. This is a film that feels as though it was madequeers, not just about them.
Some people might struggle to appreciate Love Lies Bleeding. They won’t get the appeal of Lou wishing to chomp down on Jackie’s toes, or the satisfying thwack of moving aside a man who’s trying to invade your queer date. They won’t get Love Lies Bleeding in the same way that I didn’t get Oppenheimer , or any of the Bond films. But that’s the joy of the movies. We get to swap gazes, embody characters, try their versions of the world.
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