This tense marriage drama starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson was nominated for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025.
A couple—writer Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and musician Jackson (Robert Pattinson)—move to a country house to create and to bring up their child away from the city bustle. Idyllic at first, their life soon starts to crumble. Grace struggles with postpartum depression, and their relationship grows colder. Every day brings new conflicts and soon Grace finds herself on the verge of madness.
Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has already explored the dysfunctional relationship of a mother and her teenage son, with a focus on the mother’s experience, in her best-known film We Need to Talk About Kevin. In Die My Love, she is also interested in drawing a portrait of a protagonist suffering from postpartum depression—a representation of women’s experience that we rarely encounter in film. Overloading the visual and auditory perception of the viewer with a rapid montage and the endless noise of a baby crying, a dog barking, and screaming, Ramsey brings the story to boiling point, from which one can only escape into fantasy or, in Grace’s case, into nature. Her close connection to the forest and the animal world is reflected in her animalistic behavior, emphasizing her personality crisis in a codependent relationship with her baby. The film focuses on the physical and physiological transformations brought on by her pregnancy and masochistic behavior, through which she experiences her feelings and, perhaps, finds liberation.
The film will be screened in English with Russian subtitles.
Die My Love
Director: Lynne Ramsay
USA, 2025. 119 min
18+