BLEEDING HEART is a surprisingly melancholy slow burning relationship drama between two newly united sisters. The former is a textbook bleeding heart liberal yoga teacher played by Jessica Biel. The latter is a sex worker played by Zosia Mamet. Cinema cliche would have the former try to save the latter, but in increasingly antagonistic phonecalls to her boyfriend, we realise the yoga teacher needs as much saving as the hooker. The only tragedy is that writer-director Diane Bell can't think of a more narratively and emotionally interesting denouement for this tale of mutual female empowerment than the one she gives us. Nonetheless, a nicely filmed and acted, if ultimately slight film.
BLEEDING HEART aka BOUND BY BLOOD has a running time of 80 minutes. The movie played Tribeca 2015 and was released straight to video in the USA last year. It is now available on streaming services in the UK.
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