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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
2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: The intimate and calm nature of Diane Bell's "Bleeding Heart" is simply mesmerizing. Starring Jessica Biel as May, a yoga instructor who finds her biological sister Shiva (played by Zosia Mamet), who is a sex worker with an abusive boyfriend (played by Joe Anderson). The unlikely pair explores the boundaries of their ...
Dec 11, 2015 · "Bleeding Heart" raises women’s relationship questions that aren’t at all easy to answer, and it’s profoundly provocative because it resists the preaching of resolutions. In her second feature film, writer/director Diane Bell delivers a gripping character-driven femme-centric thriller that’s enhanced by terrific performances by the entire cast and superb cinematic qualities.
Dec 11, 2015 · Reserved yoga instructor May (Jessica Biel) lives a peaceful, clean-living life with her boyfriend. Her carefully maintained equilibrium is thrown out of balance by the arrival of her long-lost biological sister Shiva (Zosia Mamet), a street-smart yet naive young woman caught working the streets and trapped in an abusive relationship. May feels compelled to rescue the hapless Shiva but as she ...
- Diane Bell
- Jessica Biel
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 · From there, this Lifetime movie fodder evolves into a full-fledged action thriller. But writer-director Diane Bell suggests that these women are so steeped in low self-esteem and codependency that ...
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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 ...
