{"id":7121,"date":"2025-05-19T19:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/screening-at-cannes-jennifer-lawrence-in-die-my-love\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T19:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:55:41","slug":"screening-at-cannes-jennifer-lawrence-in-die-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/screening-at-cannes-jennifer-lawrence-in-die-my-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening at Cannes: Jennifer Lawrence In \u2018Die My Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson attend the Die My Love<\/em>\u00a0red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2025 in Cannes, France. Daniele Venturelli\/WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Crawling on all fours like a cat in heat. Letting her own breast milk drip down onto an ink-pooled paintbrush. Rubbing her sex-starved crotch insatiably. Throwing herself through a glass-paned door. Never let it be said that Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> doesn\u2019t commit\u2014especially when she\u2019s playing a character who might just end up committed.<\/p>\n

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The semi-surreal, wildly expressionistic\u00a0Die My Love<\/em>, based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz<\/a>, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this past weekend, and left viewers wide-eyed at Lawrence\u2019s no-holds-barred portrayal of Grace, a woman suffering from such severe post-partum depression she literally walks through fire. It\u2019s the kind of head-turning star turn that Cannes audiences witnessed when Demi Moore brought\u00a0The Substance<\/em>\u00a0here last year. No surprise that, within 24 hours of its debut, deep-pocketed distributor MUBI, which steered Moore to an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win, snapped up U.S. rights (and a few international territories) to the picture for $24 million.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Lawrence in Die My Love<\/em> Kimberly French<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lynne Ramsay<\/a>\u2019s feral film, intensely experiential, also stars Robert Pattinson<\/a> as Jackson, the hapless and helpless husband who doesn\u2019t know how to stop Grace\u2019s descent, preferring to disappear for days at a time on unspecified work trips\u2014and leaving his wife alone with their 6-month-old boy, a cavernous house in the middle of nowhere and an unruly pet mutt she never even wanted.<\/p>\n

The duo, transplanted from New York City to an unspecified flat rural landscape, moved into a house previously owned by Jackson\u2019s Uncle Frank, found dead from a mysterious self-inflicted wound. Just down the road is Jackson\u2019s addled father Henry (Nick Nolte<\/a>), suffering from Alzheimer\u2019s and near death himself; as well as patient mother Pam (Sissy Spacek<\/a>), who has a habit of sleepwalking outside with her shotgun.<\/p>\n

A late addition to the Cannes competition lineup, and still fresh from the editing room,\u00a0Die My Love<\/em> is designed for maximum discomfort, with frenzied physicality, haunting cinematography and a soundtrack full of chirping crickets, wild horses, buzzing flies and incessant dog barking. But the unnerving drama still earned a 6-minute standing ovation from the black-tie crowd, which left Ramsay visibly shaken and deeply touched.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks so much!\u201d the Scottish filmmaker chirped to the room in an exhausted Glaswegian accent. \u201cC\u2019mon\u2014let\u2019s get out of here. It\u2019s a bit overwhelming.\u201d She then marched out of the packed 2200-seat Grand The\u00e2tre Lumi\u00e8re, where festival director Thierry Fr\u00e9maux was waiting in the lobby with open arms and a huge smile. \u201cWell, that went well,\u201d she confided. \u201cI\u2019m mean, there are still things I\u2019m like, \u2018What the fuck? I\u2019m going to change that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Pattinson came up behind, his face full of wonder, expressing his delight to Fr\u00e9maux. \u201cIt\u2019s very different from the last time I saw it,\u201d said Patterson.<\/p>\n

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Robert Pattinson, Lynne Ramsay and Jennifer Lawrence during the Die My Love<\/em> press conference at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 18, 2025 in Cannes, France. Corbis via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lawrence, a co-producer on the film, was thrilled by the material the moment Martin Scorsese sent the book to her office and suggested it might be a great project for her. She agreed, and then approached Ramsay about possibly directing and adapting the material (she co-wrote the script with Enda Walsh and Alice Birch).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve wanted to work with Lynne Ramsey since I saw\u00a0Ratcatcher<\/em>, and I was just like, \u2018There\u2019s no way,\u2019\u201d Lawrence said at the film\u2019s press conference the next day. \u201cWe took a chance and we sent it to her, and I cannot believe that we\u2019re here with you and this happened!\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence first became a mother in 2022, and just had her second child earlier this year\u2014experiences that clearly informed her decision to produce this film as well as how she would portray Grace. \u201cIt was really hard to separate what I would do as opposed to what\u00a0she<\/em>\u00a0would do,\u201d Lawrence said. \u201cWhen I first read the book, it was so devastating and powerful. Lynne said it was dreamlike. I had just had my first child, and there\u2019s not really anything like post-partum. It\u2019s extremely isolating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grace and Jackson\u2019s move to the country, and not having any friends nearby, is by definition even more isolating for the troubled duo. \u201cBut the truth is, extreme anxiety and extreme depression is isolating no matter where you are,\u201d she added. \u201cYou feel like an alien. And so it deeply moved me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramsay also saw the novel as being about more than post-partum depression, which helped her envision the film adaptation in more universal terms. \u201cIt was about post-natal, but It\u2019s also about being stuck, and being stuck creatively\u2014and dreams and fantasies and sex and passion,\u201d she explained. \u201cJennifer sent it to me and I thought about it for a while. Maybe I can\u2019t do this, but I\u2019m gonna try, I\u2019ll do an experiment. It\u2019s like a love story, and that kind of gave me a way in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tumultuous couple go from writhing on the floor in naked ecstasy to shouting matches and shocking moments of self-harm\u2014at one point, Lawrence slams her head into a mirror; in another she scratches the wallpaper in her bathroom with such a frenzy that her fingers are bloody pulps. She\u2019s tormented, and he\u2019s paralyzed with indecision about how to make her feel better. He\u2019s also frustrated to the point of chilly cruelty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m quite attracted to characters who are incredibly abrasive and quite obscure,\u201d said Pattinson. \u201cBut there\u2019s something quite universal and interesting for me, when you\u2019re dealing with partners going through post-partum or any kind of mental illness or difficulties. Trying to deal with her isolation and trying to figure out what your role in the relationship is, is incredibly difficult\u2014especially if you don\u2019t have the vernacular. And he\u2019s just kind of hoping the relationship will go back to what it was in its purest form, not understanding why it\u2019s intruded into the relationship. I guess it\u2019s a fear that everyone has.\u201d<\/p>\n

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