In retrospect, the collision of Lynne Ramsay and Jennifer Lawrence seems fated. The Scottish filmmaker forged her reputation with character-driven dramas like Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and You Were Never Really Here. Her films — often led by critically heralded performers — push audiences to uncomfortable emotional spaces of desire, rage, and grief. Meanwhile, the American actress broke through with such a drama, Debra Granik’s riveting Winter’s Bone, which earned Lawrence her first Oscar nod. Then, she rose to stardom by embracing roles of women on the edge in The Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and Mother!
Through this lens, Die My Love seems inevitable, but that doesn’t make it any less remarkable. Ramsay and Lawrence’s powers combine to create a ruthlessly savage portrait of female desire and wrath. The result is something feral and bloody fantastic.
Die My Love is a stirring drama in the vein of Hedda Gabler.
Jennifer Lawrence as Grace in “Die My Love.”
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