Title – Die My Love (2025)

Director – Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin)

Cast – Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, LaKeith Stanfield

Plot – Writer and new mother Grace (Lawrence) faces life under the strain of a crumbling mental state as her boyfriend Jackson (Pattinson) tries to navigate his journey as a supportive partner and father.

“A thing you love is suffering”

Review by Eddie on 08/04/2026

Credit where credit is due, it’s clear to see that everyone involved in this latest feature from Lynne Ramsay, her first since 2017’s You Were Never Really Here, was fully committed, from the film’s producers including Martin Scorsese through to Ramsay’s game leads Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson but that doesn’t save Die My Love from itself as this bizarre and unashamedly confronting drama/pitch black comedy goes about its business.

From the first 10 minutes, which includes the sight of Lawrence and Pattinson withering around on the floor acting as some form of deranged animal, it’s made abundantly clear that Ramsay isn’t going for a mainstream examination of motherhood or an easy to digest relationship breakdown feature, this is wild and untamed stuff that is saved by two talented performers and their brave performances.

Suffering from a repetitive nature, one that doesn’t totally justify its just shy of two hour running time, Love plays most of its cards relatively early on and as you await a new hand that never comes Ramsay isn’t afraid to hammer you over the head with her messaging in a tale that adapts Ariana Harwicz’s novel into this awards baiter that is only notable in any form thanks to Lawrence’s warts and all performance that demands to be noticed and admired.

Following hot on the heels of recent topical and unflinching motherhood focussed features such as the Amy Adam’s starring Nightb*tch and the very good Rose Byrne led If I had Legs I’d Kick You, Love gives the spotlight to Lawrence’s writer turned stay at home mother Grace as her clearly broken mental state sends her down a dark and treacherous trajectory that includes a crumbling relationship with Pattinson’s music loving partner Jackson and potentially delusional run-ins with La Keith Stanfield’s Karl.

It’s an incendiary performance from Lawrence who bares it all in the name of her work and the interplay with her and Pattinson is some of the best back and forward acting from a 2025 released feature but their noteworthy turns aren’t enough to keep Love’s head above water at all times as Ramsay is unable to juggle her many ideas and attempts into a truly gripping or recommendable feature.

Rarely making her way behind the camera since her debut Ratcatcher made her a filmmaker to watch all the way back in 1999 and the brilliant 2011 We Need to Talk About Kevin appeared to set her up for a peak period of her career, it’s a shame Ramsay’s collaboration with these talented performers and an astute movie mind like Martin Scorsese couldn’t have amounted to more as while there’s moments in love that are brilliant, this is a flawed and mostly disappointing exercise that misses the mark.

Final Say –

With its leads doing the best they can to navigate a familiar story with a needlessly odd spin, Die My Love isn’t a complete wreck but it’s as messy, hard to love and uneven as the character it’s based around.

2 1/2 kindly cashiers out of 5