Continuing her recent preference for independent dramas, Jessica Biel‘s latest teams her with Girls star Zosia Mamet. Bleeding Heart, the sophomore effort from writer-director Diane Bell (Obselidia), follows Biel’s character coming across her biological sister (Mamet) for the first time as secrets bubble. Following a premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, it’ll now arrive in theaters in December and we have the first trailer.
We said in our Tribeca review, “Suffering from performances, direction and writing that each lack nuance, Bleeding Heart takes subject matter deserving of mature, thoughtful treatment and distorts reality into a series of soap opera clichés. Written and directed by Diane Bell, the drama stars Jessica Biel as May, a yoga instructor living with boyfriend Dex (Edi Gathegi). Together they operate a yoga studio funded by May’s mother Martha (Kate Burton). Martha, while providing the kind of disapproving support that only a mother could, is not May’s biological mother, who remains largely off screen, despite something that ought to have been explored much deeper than the montage dedicated to it.”
Check out the trailer below.
BLEEDING HEART follows the story of May, a yoga instructor who finds herself behaving in ways she’d never imagined herself capable of in an effort to protect her newly discovered biological sister, Shiva, from a dangerous boyfriend.
Bleeding Heart opens on December 11th.