Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay, 2025)

[yoloswegmaster]

Robert Pattinson In Talks To Star Opposite Jennifer Lawrence In Lynne Ramsay’s Thriller ‘Die, My Love’; Martin Scorsese Producing

[yoloswegmaster]

Robert Pattinson In Talks To Star Opposite Jennifer Lawrence In Lynne Ramsay’s Thriller ‘Die, My Love’; Martin Scorsese Producing

Sissy Spacek & Nick Nolte Latest To Join

[Matt]

It feels great having a new Lynne Ramsay to look forward to. I missed the news that LaKeith Stanfield had signed on too and that Scorsese is co-producing.

[brundlefly]

Teasing Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love.

[Matt]

Die My Love: Very frustrating movie. Five stars for Lynne Ramsay's direction and the editing, maybe one-and-a-half for the material she had to work with. But I suppose in the genre of "auteur directs Jennifer Lawrence in an isolated house, she has an unsupportive partner, and somebody breaks a sink," it reins supreme. Its major touchstone seems to be A Woman Under the Influence, which is my least-favorite Cassavetes movie, and maybe also those weird movies from the late '60s-early '70s where some strange man shows up at a woman's house in the country, like The Night Digger or The Fox. I bet it works great as the 120-page, first-person novel it's adapted from, but as a film script there's just not much there. How many times can I watch Jennifer Lawrence crawl around on the ground? How many times can I watch her stand still and slump over? How many facial wounds can one woman get in a movie? I applaud Lawrence for not taking the easy road and doing lots of hysterical screaming and crying as her character descends into psychosis, but there's also not a lot of distance between her mania and her depression. It all ends up looking pretty similar on the surface.

It does have some delightful dark humor in it. Apparently Ramsay didn't want to direct the film unless she could turn the focus away from post-partum depression and toward a "bonkers, crazy love story." There is maybe a little of that kind of thing, gesturing toward the Cassavetes film and Badlands—Sissy Spacek plays a key role, maybe the only figure in the film who understands Lawrence's character—but it's kind of lukewarm and half-hearted. Pattinson's character seems not to know what to do about his crazy wife so he either leaves her on her own or forces her into situations which only exacerbate her problems. I don't see a lot of "love" in the film except for the first few scenes (which are pretty fantastically filmed and edited).

I might need to see it again—a prospect I don't particularly welcome—but it's in the far bottom of Ramsay's body of work for me, maybe equal with or slightly above We Need to Talk About Kevin. In no way is it Lawrence's best performance. I'd say her work in No Hard Feelings towers over this, but that's not the kind of film people treat seriously.

[therewillbeblus]

Die My Love: Very frustrating movie. Five stars for Lynne Ramsay's direction and the editing, maybe one-and-a-half for the material she had to work with.

I felt about the same as you did. The use of music is fantastic as well, but otherwise this movie just doesn't seem to know what it wants to be or how it even feels about its characters. I didn't sense any affection towards them as flawed people, because the film doesn't even seem that interested in them, or people, to begin with. Its primary interest is formal, and unlike You Were Never Really Here et al., Ramsay doesn't employ her style to accentuate deeper themes or ideas here about humanity. Everything is just too opaque for its own good

[TheTreeSong]

Lynne Ramsay has become a disappointment for me. I liked her first 2 films but everything since then has been embarrassingly heavy handed and filled with sledgehammer imagery. It was like she suddenly decided she wanted to be a female Aronofsky or something. All the poetry in Ratcatcher and Movern Callar is completely gone.

unlike You Were Never Really Here et al., Ramsay doesn't employ her style to accentuate deeper themes or ideas here about humanity. Everything is just too opaque for its own good

I don't think You Were Never Really Here, with its suicide fakeouts and undercooked bait and switches, contains any interesting ideas about humanity.

The one shred of hope is her saying recently that her next film might have her returning to Scotland. Maybe one of the issues is her working/setting her films in North America.

[therewillbeblus]

I don't think You Were Never Really Here, with its suicide fakeouts and undercooked bait and switches, contains any interesting ideas about humanity.

Those attributes might not, but I thought it displayed a peculiar variety of how one character copes with living with trauma. It's not just violence and drug abuse, but a scene like him disrobing at the end, or when he chooses to lay down and sing next to a significant assailant.. I dunno, it's not 'saying' anything distinct, but it's a more interesting 'character study' than Die My Love, which I didn't feel gave us nuggets like these that contributed towards understanding Lawrence on any level