The twentieth version of the Glasgow Movie Competition has landed one in every of Sundance’s most talked-about movies for its opening evening.
“Love Lies Bleeding,” Rose Glass‘ queer romantic noir starring Kristen Stewart that earned important acclaim in Park Metropolis, is ready to boost the curtain on the occasion with its U.Ok. premiere. The movie follows “reclusive fitness center supervisor Lou (Stewart) who falls onerous for Jackie (Katy O’Brian), an bold bodybuilder headed by city to Vegas in pursuit of her dream,” in keeping with its official description. “However their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the online of Lou’s prison household.”
Billing itself as “Scotland’s largest movie pageant,” the Glasgow Movie Competition runs Feb. 28-March 10 on the Glasgow Movie Theater, which itself is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this yr, plus venues throughout town.
Different world and worldwide premieres embody “Tummy Monster,” a hallucinogenic darkish drama by Glasgow director Ciaran Lyons starring rising Scottish star Lorn Macdonald; the massive display adaptation of blackly comedian novel “Bucky F*cking Dent” written by, directed by and starring David Duchovny; and a brand new restoration of “Billy Connolly: Massive Banana Ft,” the hardly ever seen documentary shot in the course of the comic’s 1975 tour of Eire.
U.Ok. premieres embody real-life father-daughter duo Ewan and Clara McGregor taking a street journey in “Bleeding Love,” Cynthia Erivo as a Liberian refugee who befriends Alia Shawkat’s American tour information in “Drift” and Viggo Mortensen directing and starring in Western epic “The Lifeless Don’t Harm.”
Different movies screening embody Kevin Macdonald’s documentary “Excessive and Low: John Galliano,” the Lea Seydoux and George MacKay-starring “The Beast” and Luna Carmoon’s debut “Hoard.” In the meantime, the U.Ok. premiere of Alice Rohrwacher’s interval romance “La Chimera,” starring Josh O’Connor, will happen each on the Glasgow Movie Competition and 9 accomplice cinemas throughout the U.Ok.
