Film Review – Bleeding Heart

Writer/director Diane Bell has a very simple idea for “Bleeding Heart,” but she manages to massage a basic tale of protection and longing into a compelling drama with an exploitation stinger. “Bleeding Heart” isn’t a tumultuous sit, but when it slips into a groove of tentative trust and impulsive acts, it finds interesting behaviors to study, while leads Jessica Biel and Zosia Mamet delivering unexpectedly weighted performances, supporting Bell’s vision for an askew take on a sibling connection. Ironies are sliced thick and violence offers little surprise, but the feature manages matters of the heart quite well, even with little narrative to explore. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com