This is such a unique and electrifying premise. The subject of a film noir, featuring female body building and gay women is something that is incredibly exciting.
While Rose Glass's first film Saint Maud showed a lot of promise, this film pretty much cements the director as talent to watch.
Kristen Stewart is as brilliant as she has ever been in this role. It's one she's clearly very much at ease with. Katie O Brian also truly shines in this role that seemed to be tailor-made for her. Especially given the fact that she not only was a body builder at some point in her life, but she also worked as a police officer for seven years.
As for the lesbians going wild about this film, there are a lot of passionate raunchy sex scenes between the two leads, and it is HOT.
It also should be noted that NONE of the characters in the film are good people, not even the two lead women. It was a very welcome change to see two gay women in a mainstream film be incredibly flawed and make stupid, and I mean STUPID mistakes.
Which brings me to the crux of the film: Careless, obsessive love costs lives.
The "Love is like a drug" theme is done extremely well here. The unconditional love, the messy love, the destructive love, and the "love will hurt you the most" love.
There is also a lot to be said on how this plays on bodies. You have Jackie, who was teased as kid for being fat, bulk herself up to the max and be larger than life. In contrast, there is Lou who chain-smokes and eats ready made meals, and Daisy, Lou's possessive and suspicious off again, on again girlfriend who rots her set of teeth with sweets.
It's a great little twist on the western noir genre.
While Rose Glass's first film Saint Maud showed a lot of promise, this film pretty much cements the director as talent to watch.
Kristen Stewart is as brilliant as she has ever been in this role. It's one she's clearly very much at ease with. Katie O Brian also truly shines in this role that seemed to be tailor-made for her. Especially given the fact that she not only was a body builder at some point in her life, but she also worked as a police officer for seven years.
As for the lesbians going wild about this film, there are a lot of passionate raunchy sex scenes between the two leads, and it is HOT.
It also should be noted that NONE of the characters in the film are good people, not even the two lead women. It was a very welcome change to see two gay women in a mainstream film be incredibly flawed and make stupid, and I mean STUPID mistakes.
Which brings me to the crux of the film: Careless, obsessive love costs lives.
The "Love is like a drug" theme is done extremely well here. The unconditional love, the messy love, the destructive love, and the "love will hurt you the most" love.
There is also a lot to be said on how this plays on bodies. You have Jackie, who was teased as kid for being fat, bulk herself up to the max and be larger than life. In contrast, there is Lou who chain-smokes and eats ready made meals, and Daisy, Lou's possessive and suspicious off again, on again girlfriend who rots her set of teeth with sweets.
It's a great little twist on the western noir genre.