(L to R) Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in ‘Die My Love’. Picture Seamus McGarvey/Mubi.
Opening in theaters November 7 is ‘Die My Love,’ directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield, Gabrielle Rose, and Nick Nolte.
Launch Date: Nov 7, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 59 min
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Preliminary Ideas
Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Die My Love’. Picture Kimberley French/Mubi.
Lynne Ramsay has written and directed solely 5 characteristic movies in 26 years, and ‘Die My Love’ comes eight years after her earlier effort, 2017’s ‘You Have been By no means Actually Right here.’ Based mostly on Ariana Harwicz’s 2012 novel of the identical identify, ‘Die My Love’ treads comparable psychological floor as a few of Ramsay’s earlier movies, with this one portraying each postpartum melancholy and the dissolution of an sad marriage.
However regardless of an incendiary efficiency from Jennifer Lawrence, and robust help from Robert Pattinson and Sissy Spacek, ‘Die My Love’ by no means actually takes off. It’s filmed extremely nicely – by now a Ramsay trademark – and has a string of highly effective moments, but sooner or later it settles right into a form of cyclical construction that simply finally ends up repeating itself, making for an initially absorbing however irritating viewing expertise.
Story and Course
Director Lynne Ramsay on the set of ‘Die My Love’. Picture Kimberley French/Mubi.
The movie opens contained in the decaying, shabby farmhouse that Grace (Lawrence) and Jackson (Pattinson) are transferring into, which we be taught belonged to Jackson’s uncle earlier than he offed himself upstairs. However the one ghosts in the home are those in Grace’s head. They’ve moved to the center of nowhere in Montana to get out of metropolis life and let Grace consider writing a novel, whereas one-time musician Jackson settles right into a job as a truck driver that takes him away for days at a time.
At first they romp round the home like playful, overgrown youngsters, sexing and ingesting with relish, however as soon as Grace will get pregnant and offers delivery, all that involves an finish – regardless that Grace continues to be attractive, Jackson doesn’t need something to do with that and his journeys get even longer. That leaves Grace alone with the infant and her personal more and more fractured and tormented ideas – which quickly flip into more and more damaging actions that appear to tip into full-blown psychosis.
Director Lynne Ramsay on the set of ‘Die My Love’. Picture Kimberley French/Mubi.
Is it the loneliness or the postpartum melancholy that does Grace in? It’s left ambiguous, however we suspect the previous greater than the latter. Both approach, whether or not she actually tears the lavatory aside or has a fast (probably imaginary) fling with the biker down the street (a barely there LaKeith Stanfield), Grace is on a downward spiral – till she isn’t. She will get higher for a bit, after which does all of it once more, rinse and repeat.
And that’s finally the issue with ‘Die My Love’: it finally ends up chasing its personal tail, changing into extra stylized and self-indulgent because it goes alongside and fewer attention-grabbing to observe. Jackson and his mother, Pam (Sissy Spacek) attempt to assist however appear hapless within the face of Grace’s force-of-nature rush to set her entire life on fireplace (canine lovers beware: issues don’t finish nicely for the household pet). There are moments of readability and sweetness and profundity, however they’re fleeting in an in any other case exhausting catalog of erratic conduct that portrays psychological sickness as a form of Grand Guignol.
Forged and Performances
(L to R) Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in ‘Die My Love’. Picture: Kimberley French/Mubi.
Jennifer Lawrence is at her finest when she simply lets uncooked emotion and impulse pour out of her, which makes ‘Die My Love’ one thing of a tour de drive. Unafraid to reveal her flesh and equally fearless about getting it soiled and bloodied, Lawrence plunges headlong into the position of Grace with fervor, holding your eyes glued on her even when the remainder of the film falters. She approaches the character with each darkish humor and grim abandon, daring the viewer to stick with her on the experience – and succeeding by her energy as an actor alone.
Robert Pattinson does his finest right here, however Jackson is just not as current, both bodily or psychically, and the character is merely reactive to no matter Grace throws at him. Sissy Spacek injects some empathy into the proceedings, however in a similar way, the position of Pam shouldn’t be developed sufficient. It’s additionally a disgrace we don’t see extra of Nick Nolte as Jackson’s dementia-addled father, whose few moments onscreen are transferring.
Closing Ideas
Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Die My Love’. Picture Kimberley French/Mubi.
‘Die My Love’ is the second film this season a few younger mom cracking beneath the pressure, with ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ additionally making the expertise a harrowing one. The movies each use darkish humor and surreal imagery, however differ in necessary methods: Grace, in her personal trend, embraces motherhood, whereas Rose Byrne’s Linda in ‘If I Had Legs’ admits at a pivotal second that she didn’t wish to be a mom within the first place.
It is as much as the person viewer how relatable every efficiency is, however the work by each actors is Oscar-worthy even when neither movie develops a transparent narrative or theme. Within the meantime, ‘Die My Love’ is Lynne Ramsay’s most internalized movie since her early efforts ‘Ratcatcher’ and ‘Morvern Callar,’ and maybe her most tough to embrace – and even a more durable one to like.
‘Die My Love’ receives a rating of 65 out of 100.
(L to R) Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in ‘Die My Love’. Picture: Kimberley French/Mubi.
What’s the plot of ‘Die My Love’?
Grace and Jackson transfer from New York Metropolis to Jackson’s rural childhood house in Montana in the hunt for a quieter life. As they regulate to their new environment and develop into dad and mom, Grace begins to wrestle with emotions of isolation and psychological misery. Her deteriorating psychological well being progressively drives their marriage into unsettling and unpredictable territory.
Who’s within the forged of ‘Die My Love’?
- Jennifer Lawrence as Grace
- Robert Pattinson as Jackson
- Sissy Spacek as Pam
- LaKeith Stanfield as Karl
- Nick Nolte as Harry
- Gabrielle Rose as Jen
- Debs Howard as Marsha
- Sarah Lind as Cheryl
Director Lynne Ramsay on the set of ‘Die My Love’. Picture: Mubi.