Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson are, of course, most well known for their forays into big franchise entertainment. Lawrence was Katniss in The Hunger Games and Mystique in a handful of X-Men movies, while Pattinson was Edward in Twilight, Cedric in Harry Potter, and currently stars as Bruce Wayne and Batman in Matt Reeves’ Bat-verse.
And yet the latest movie from Lawrence and Pattinson is a quiet domestic drama, a chaotic descent into post-partum depression and maybe even psychosis. It’s called Die My Love, and it’s directed by Lynne Ramsay who made a name for herself making psychological drama thrillers like We Need To Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here.
Die My love is a viscerally upsetting and intense portrayal of a real phenomenon that has split critics and audiences, garnering a positive reaction out of the Cannes Film Festival but falling flat with fans who seem to have balked at the movie’s depiction of violence and its bleak tone. Despite it all, though, the central performances are absolutely transfixing. Specifically, Lawrence’s work as a young mother dealing with the common but underdiscussed reality of postpartum difficulties has her deservedly square in the middle of awards races that are really starting to take shape.
Die My Love isn’t going to be a movie for everybody. It’s patient and slow, full of messy details and bleak reality. But for people who are willing to go there with Ramsay’s latest film, it will serve up plenty to think over for days afterward.
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