Interview with Rose Glass, director of Glasgow Film Festival 2024’s opening film Love Lies Bleeding

Glasgow Film Festival has returned for 2024. Here we speak to Rose Glass, director of opening film Love Lies Bleeding.

Transcript

00:00 So how does it feel to open Glasgow Film Festival, Rose?

00:02 Oh it's an honour, very exciting. I had my first film was here in the festival in 2020 I think,

00:07 so it's very cool to be back and opening it.

00:09 Sure, was that St Martin?

00:10 Yes, I only did one other one.

00:11 Is that four years you're back again?

00:14 Yeah, god I guess it is four years, those like two pandemic years just feel like this

00:18 sort of didn't happen.

00:18 How does it feel to be back in Glasgow?

00:21 Great, like I've never managed to stay for more than a few days and I'm always like,

00:25 oh I need to walk around and see the town and then I have to leave, but it's very nice to be back.

00:29 For sure, so tell us a bit more about the film if you don't mind.

00:31 Yeah, so it's like a sort of romance thriller kind of thing set in the 80s in America in a

00:37 sort of nowhere town in the southwest and it's a love story between these two seemingly very

00:41 sort of polar opposite women, one of them's an aspiring bodybuilder and the other works in a gym

00:46 but just likes sitting on her arse behind a desk all day and they meet and fall in love and lots

00:50 of stuff starts to go very very wrong.

00:53 For sure, yeah. So I believe you've sold out, is that true?

00:55 Apparently, yeah, someone said that apparently it sold out in like seven minutes or something,

00:58 so thank you.

00:59 Sure, yeah, so where do you think that film at, Peele's, the Glydes region, is there an interest?

01:02 Who knows, I mean let's see if they haven't seen it yet, so maybe they'll like it.