DIE MY LOVE (2025)

Genre: Drama
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, LaKeith Stanfield
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Rating: M18 (Sexual Scenes and Nudity)
Released By: Shaw Organisation
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Opening Day: 18 December 2026

Synopsis: Set in rural America, Die My Love is a portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness.

Movie Review:

Hardly anyone remembers that Jennifer Lawrence’s breakout role was in the indie tragedy Winter’s Bone, long before she went mainstream with commercial hits like X-Men: First Class and The Hunger Games. With Die My Love, it seems the actress is once again dipping her toes back into independent drama and we must say, what a performance it is.

To say Die My Love is a difficult watch would be an understatement. Adapted from Ariana Harwicz’s 2012 Spanish novel Matate, Amor, the film follows Grace (Lawrence), a mother with a newborn son living in rural America. She has just moved into a house inherited by her boyfriend, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), from his uncle—dilapidated on the surface, but sufficient for the young couple to start a family. At first, they appear happy together: playful, sexually charged, talking about their future. Everything seems fine… until it isn’t.

Those familiar with the work of Lynne Ramsay will know this is not going to be an easy watch (remember We Need to Talk About Kevin?). And indeed, it isn’t. There’s no conventional narrative or heavy plot development packed into its two-hour runtime. Instead, the film unfolds as a series of loosely connected events and images. Ramsay and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey shoot Die My Love in a strikingly aesthetic manner, making the visuals, at the very least, a stunning achievement.

At its core, Die My Love is a film about parenthood and postpartum depression. Jackson appears to have lost his fire after the birth of his son, weighed down by long working hours and the pressure of providing. Pattinson is given the thankless task of playing the passive, in-denial husband. While the British actor has proven himself in several impressive indie roles, this film ultimately belongs to Lawrence, who is given the far more demanding and showier part.

Jennifer Lawrence truly embodies a woman suffering from mental illness, even as the story itself struggles to maintain coherence. She screams. She masturbates in the wild and in the bedroom. She crashes through a glass door, crawls on all fours, and imagines herself having sex with a stranger. There is something wild and raw in her performance that pulls the audience into sympathising with her suffering as she slowly spirals into madness.

Yet the film’s highly artistic presentation may discourage general audiences, despite the presence of veteran actors like Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte as Jackson’s parents. An intriguing subplot involving Spacek’s character sleepwalking while carrying a rifle ultimately goes nowhere. Grace’s childhood trauma is briefly mentioned but never fully explored. By the end, Ramsay simply continues to show Grace’s descent into the abyss—no healing process, no explanations, just pure, brutal struggle.

Die My Love could have been a powerful and compelling film about mental health, parenthood, and marriage. But Lynne Ramsay is not a filmmaker who simply shows and tells. She communicates through feelings, images, and performances, refusing to package her stories in an approachable or commercial way.

You have been warned.

Movie Rating:

(An uncomfortable, uncompromising performance from Lawrence is the main selling point here)

Review by Linus Tee