In Lynne Ramsay’s harrowing new psychosexual thriller, a young mother (Jennifer Lawrence) is slowly slipping into madness in rural Montana, acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion (Robert Pattinson) increasingly worried and helpless. Co-starring Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, Lakeith Stanfield. Adapted from a novella by Ariana Harwicz, Ramsey infuses the Wyeth-esque surroundings with hallucinatory ambiguity and Lawrence’s powerhouse ferocity.
“DIE MY LOVE is further proof that no one is doing it like Lynne Ramsay, whose technique and style continue to evolve, as she draws out a career-best performance from Jennifer Lawrence in a must-see thriller spectacle that turns a single woman’s experience into a brutally honest psychological epic.” —Emma Kiely, Collider “DIE MY LOVE is a different, snarling animal, that finds Ramsay and Lawrence in ferociously maximalist sync, conspiring without compromise on making us feel like a character who, above all, above anything, does not want to feel this way: in love with herself, in fear for herself and in desperate, spitting, spite of herself.” —Jessica Kiang, BFI “What Lawrence does in DIE MY LOVE is so delicately textured, even within its bold expressiveness, and its fiery anger, that it leaves you scrambling for adjectives. It’s the kind of performance you go to the movies for…. True, it takes a little courage to face it. But weirdly, by the end, this movie makes you feel more exhilarated than drained.” —Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine “A scream of a film about feminine cravings gone unmet, that then explode…. If Coralie Fargeat’s THE SUBSTANCE unleashed an aging woman’s internal battles, DIE MY LOVE releases a fury born of feminine unfulfillment, escalated by postpartum depression and loneliness. As such, the unbearably, deliciously rude Grace is a conduit for many women’s unspoken grudges, as she sinks her claws deep into Ramsay’s tale (co-written by Enda Walsh and based on an Ariana Harwicz book) and cuts it open.” —Tomris Laffly, The A.V. Club
