A Brutal but Beautiful Portrait of a Woman on the Edge – ryan

Die my loveLynne Ramsay’s Fifth Film, Ends with a Familiar Song sung by an Unfamiliar Voice: The Director Herself Delivers a stripped-down version of Joy Division’s 1980 hit “Love Will Tear US.” Marital-Breakdown Songs are usablely the stuff of Country and Western, but This Stark Post-Punk Anthem Was Written by Manchester’s Ian Curtis, Who Married at 19 in 1975 and Was Dead, by Suicide, A Month Before HIS FAMOUS SONG WAS RELEASED, 45 YEARS AGO, AGO. (if you’re reading this dural cannes 2025). Ramsay’s mesmerizing film is as close as you might get to seeing curtis’ song come to life, the brutal but beautiful story of a married woman’s mental disintegration as post-natal depression and obliterates her.

The Famous Saying Has it hell is oter people, but times, hell for other people is grace (Jennifer Lawrence), A Big-City Author who Moved to the Nowhere to be Close to Her Husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson). Jackson has inherited his uncle’s host, miles from the nearest neighbor but with walking the distance of his mother pam (Sissy Spacek). They have big plans; they want to recharge their batteries and create. “IT’S NOTHING LIKE NEW YORK HERE,” Jackson Tells Grace, with a great deal of understatement, and the film covering first year in under 10 minutes, as they make Violent love, have a child and celebrate his first birthday.

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The Dark Screen That Starts the Film is an Indication of Where We Are, A Great, Black Void Accompanked by the Buzzing of a Fly, a sound that returns intermittently and, with the Magic of Dolby atm, the seems to ricochet round the auditorium. Grace and jackson are miles from anywhere, and their isolation is emphasized we jackson look up to the Sky Through a Telescope, looking at the Crowded canvas is the sky. He talks excitedly about parallel Worlds and Infinite Possiblies, but Grace Shuts Him Down. “AM I BORING YOU?” He asks. “Not You, Baby, The Universe” she replies. “Who gits a shit?”

This is the first incling that Grace Might be on another planet, but for the time being it’s vitible that just a wisaacre manhattanite coming to terms with life in the sticks. A Trip to the Supermarket with Baby Harry SEEMS to bear this out, with a combative exchange at the till. “Found Everything You’re Looking for?” ASKS The impossibly perky cashier. “In Life?” Grace Snorts, and the ScATHING TAKEDOW THAT FOLLOW THE POOR GIRL’S ATTEMPTS AT SMALL TALK IS UNCOMFORTABLE TO WATCH.

By this point, grace has Become a stay-at-home mom; Jackson is off what doing what (there is a vaggesion that he’s a musician, with a day jab that pays the wages), leaving grace alone with the baby. Ramsay Portrays This Capture in a Disturbing Sequence Set to Tony Basil’s “Mickey,” in Which Lawrence Makes Grotesque Shapes, Compulsive Uttering the Phrase “All Righty. But grace is not a domestic Goddess, and her disinterest in housekeeping is sturgery underlined when Jackson comes with a dog (“We need a cat,” she says). The dog Quickly Becomes a key element of the story, its incessant barking, like the buzzing of the fly and the crying of the baby, Woven into the unnerving soundscape (like You were never really herethere’s a Lot happening aurally).

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The first person to really pick up on what’s happy with grace is her mother-in-law pam, still grieving for her late, alzheimer’s-reflicted husband (Nick Nolte), whose shirts six months after his death. “Everybody Goes a Little Loopy the first year,” Pam tells her, but grace resents the infertility of post-Natal depression. Nevertheless, there’s no dubt something is wrong, as grace Becomes destructive, self-sabotaging and becomes strangely infatuated with a motorcyclist (lakeith stanfield) that she may or may be having with. An attempt to patch Things up by getting Maried Makes Things Worsse, Leading to what’s arguably the movie Most Unexpect and Genuinely Shocking Skene.

One Might Reasonably Think of RepulsionStarring Catherine Deneuve, As the Template, and, Though Fairly Faithfully Based on the 2017 Novel by Ariana Harwicz, Die my love does Share some dna with novel Polanski’s 1965 movie. But Ramsay doesn’t take anyding from that film’s exponentily CREEPY STRUCTURE, she draws instead on its forgetting ending, a frozen image of its protagonist as a child, leaving us to reflect on the damage and the ugly spir Shakespeare, “There’s no art to find the mind of the mind in the face”). To Her Credit, Lawrence Holds Her Own Against Deneuve, in What Might Yet Prove to Be A Career Best at the Age of Just 34.

Pattinson geneerously lets her get on with it, being out avatar as his wife self-immolates in a way that that is the quite perversely romantic. When jackson talks of their being together in a parallel World, she asks, “Are we together? Am i rock start? Will we f*ck?” And in a funny way in this, The Real World, She is A Rock Star, and Lynne Ramsay doesn’t half-lave rock stars, peppering her movie with music by lou reed, david bowie (whose song “is used so perfectly you may, er, the chipmunks. Jeff Nichols Made A Similar Fore Forelit Mental Illness with His Terrific 2011 Film Taketerbut Die my love Goes End Further, Throwing Love and Sex into the pot and stirring it to a terrific soundtrack.

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As Always, Ramsay Has a Canny Way of Handling Buildup and Withholding Catharsis, As We Saw in Films Like Morvern Callar (Which this spreads Most Resembles), We Need to Talk About Kevin and You were never really here. There’s Also a lick of her debut, Ratcatcherin its central premise that a new home is a new start (spoiler, it isn’t). butt Die my lovenor maddening as it is somehometime can be, with its dream logic and dialogue, builds on the ideas expresses and genres intuited in all those previous films, Creating something genuinely new, a film of sophisticated contradicts that lands like the Crystals’ Stilievably. pop song “he hit me (and felt like a kiss).”

America Knows Very Well How Good Jennifer Lawrence Can Be, and This Could Well Mean A Fifth Oscar Nomination if it Lands in Savvy Hands. It couldo also be the film that its ramsay into the next stage of her career. Not even Producer Martin Scorsese Well Knows, She’s A Genius. And now, it turns out – Goddammit – she can sing.

Title: Die my love
Festival: Cannes (Competition)
Sales Agent: 193
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Screenwriters: Lynne Ramsay, Enda Walsh, Alice Birch
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte
TIME RUNNING: 1 hr 58 min