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It is the sensibility of a plot that misuses simplicity as a form to get from the beginning to the end without any surprises or wonder along the way. Stylistically, the film’s somber and uneasy atmosphere that’s conveyed in its cinematography and ambient score seems out of place. The film has the cinematic appearance of a gritty gangster ...
- Edi Gathegi
- Diane Bell
Bleeding Heart (film) Bleeding Heart. (film) Bleeding Heart (originally titled Shiva & May) is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Diane Bell and starring Jessica Biel, Zosia Mamet, Joe Anderson and Edi Gathegi. The film was produced by Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling, and Greg Ammon.
Nov 2, 2015 · Now Diane Bell’s second film as writer/director is ready for release. BLEEDING HEART is a thriller starring Jessica Biel and Zosia Mamet as estranged sisters who come together and take on one’s abusive boyfriend. Bleeding Heart premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and is being distributed by Gravitas Ventures on VOD November 3 ...
Dec 11, 2015 · Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images. Jessica Biel plays an introverted Ashtanga yoga instructor named May, whose eyes open to some of the world’s harsher realities when she discovers her half ...
Oct 19, 2015 · Written and directed by Diane Bell, Bleeding Heart (terrible title for this, in my opinion) is made up of material that could be construed as sappy – Lifetime Movie fodder, even – but fortunately it’s elevated to a cinematic experience thanks to the talent of the women involved (as well as DP Zak Mulligan, and editor John-Michael Powell) and the interesting handling of familiar subject ...
Dec 11, 2015 · Where Bleeding Heart goes from here is not at all surprising, but the relationship between the two women, tentative at first and then growing in affection and need, is very nicely drawn by Biel and Mamet: they feel like real women, never the caricatures they so easily might have been. And writer-director Diane Bell eschews any hint of sentimentality or melodrama, depicting with smart ...
Dec 11, 2015 · Politically correct cliches stand in for any kind of real understanding of the subject matter (pimps and prostitutes, domestic violence and abuse, etc.) Not even a nice try for an indie film. Sometimes passable acting cannot save this movie from itself, from its horrible script and directing. But Jessica Biel looks great, hence this gets a 1/10 ...
