{"id":7652,"date":"2025-05-27T20:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/screening-at-cannes-lynne-ramsays-die-my-love\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T20:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:17:56","slug":"screening-at-cannes-lynne-ramsays-die-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/screening-at-cannes-lynne-ramsays-die-my-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening at Cannes: Lynne Ramsay\u2019s \u2018Die, My Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jennifer Lawrence in Die My Love<\/em> Kimberly French\/Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although it eventually loses staying power, Lynne Ramsay<\/a>\u2019s ferocious relationship drama Die, My Love<\/i> quickly seeps beneath your skin, practically holding you hostage in its initial half. Ramsay\u2019s first feature in eight years\u2014after the Cannes crime drama You Were Never Really Here<\/i>\u2014casts Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> and Robert Pattinson<\/a> in its leading roles, as Grace and Jackson, a pair of newlyweds who inherit a Montana farmhouse. This rural, isolated setting plays host to the couple\u2019s steadily crumbling relationship, which its actors embody by jumping headfirst into raw, instinctive performances.<\/p>\n

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DIE, MY LOVE<\/b> \u2605\u26051\/2\u00a0<\/strong>(2.5\/4 stars<\/em>)<\/strong>
Directed by:<\/strong> Lynne Ramsay<\/span>
Written by: <\/strong>Lynne Ramsay, Enda Walsh, Alice Birch<\/span>
Starring: <\/strong>Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte<\/span>
Running time:<\/strong> 118 mins.<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n

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At times, Ramsay practically films acting exercises with Lawrence and Pattinson, who crawl along the dusty floors, giving into feline animalism. Their sex is feral and playful, drawing the viewer into the lust and euphoria of their honeymoon stage. However, the movie quickly cuts to several months down the line, after they\u2019ve had a child, and they\u2019ve entered a rut that keeps them at loggerheads.<\/span><\/p>\n

The film<\/span> has been touted<\/span><\/a> as one of postpartum depression\u2014given the timing of the duo\u2019s simultaneous breakdown\u2014but this feels like a mis-categorization. If anything, the couple\u2019s woes are catalyzed by Grace staying home to care for their, baby while Jackson spends more and more time away, at a blue collar job whose details we barely learn (we remain largely tethered to Grace\u2019s point of view). The film\u2019s brash, diegetic soundtrack, as Grace oscillates between playing<\/span> early \u201860s rock and roll<\/span><\/a> and<\/span> \u201880s bubblegum glam<\/span><\/a>\u00a0at deafening volume, creates a hair-raising baseline, complemented by disembodied images of a forest on fire. Perhaps this is a premonition involving the woods surrounding the couple\u2019s home, but its abstract nature speaks to how Grace and Jackson are being engulfed by some unseen force, born of their own anxieties.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seamus McGarvey\u2019s cinematography washes out the movie\u2019s color palette, over-exposing it ever so slightly, so that every scene resembles what one might experience during a head-splitting hangover. His lensing also makes deft and dizzying use of <\/span>swirling bokeh<\/span><\/a>, imbuing the lush backgrounds with a sensation of vertigo and unease. In keeping with this approach, Ramsay gently twirls the camera around the characters too, introducing gradually more erratic movements for the first few scenes. There isn\u2019t a moment of calm during <\/span>Die, My Love<\/span><\/i>, placing its most effective moments comfortably alongside Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski\u2019s 1981 discomforting romance <\/span>Possession<\/span><\/i>, in which Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani turn a couple\u2019s divorce into a focal point for psychological horror. Lawrence and Pattinson don\u2019t quite stray that far into genre territory, but their full-bodied commitment proves alluring and amusing.<\/span><\/p>\n