Festival Predictions

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding

Published on November 14, 2023

The world of bodybuilding could be showcased and explored for a second year in a row in Park City — after Magazine Dreams (which Searchlight have taken off their film release slate) we could be bench-pressing Love Lies Bleeding. The A24 folks got into the Rose Glass business with her breakout TIFF preemed Saint Maud in 2019 and they quickly lapped up a round two with the British filmmaker. We thought this romantic thriller starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Dave Franco, Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov had a legit shot at a 2023 release – but the 2024 scorecard was probably a better fit. Re-teaming with her Saint Maud cinematographer Ben Fordesman, production would have taken place around June of last year in New Mexico.

Gist: Written by Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilska, this is about a romance fueled by ego, desire and the American Dream. Kristen Stewart plays a gym employee and Katy O’Brian is a bisexual body builder.

Production Co./Producers: Escape Plan Productions’ Oliver Kassman and Lobo Films’ Andrea Cornwell.

Prediction: Premieres.

U.S. Distributor/Sales: A24.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).