Die My Love review: Jennifer Lawrence shines in Lynne Ramsay's intense drama
Lynne Ramsay returns with a raw, animalistic exploration of motherhood in Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. The film is charged with a feral energy from the start, as Lawrence and Pattinson portray Grace and Jackson, a deeply in-love young couple.
In Ramsay's intense adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s 2012 novel, the characters are driven by hunger — for love, for sex, and for a fresh start when they move to his uncle’s dilapidated, isolated home. They soon welcome a baby, which plunges Grace into her most primal existence: feeding, changing nappies, and sleeping.
Both Grace and Jackson have creative ambitions — she wants to write a novel, and he dreams of recording an album — but those hopes fade. Instead, Grace begins to unravel psychologically, slipping back into raw, instinctual behaviors. She dances in her underwear, prowls the house wielding a knife, and seeks relief in solitude.
“There’s a feral energy that courses through Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love.”
Despite the expansive setting, depicted through a tight, claustrophobic Academy ratio, Grace’s world feels like a confining prison. Ramsay solidifies her status as one of cinema’s most insightful observers of human nature.
“Lynne Ramsay reaffirms herself as one of our foremost observers of humanity.”
Author’s note: This intense film delves deeply into the raw, psychological effects of motherhood, showcasing Jennifer Lawrence’s most powerful performance under Ramsay’s expert direction.