Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson are finally sharing the screen in Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love. The film, adapted from Ariana Harwicz’s searing novel, premiered at Cannes to near-universal acclaim, with critics hailing Lawrence’s performance as “astonishing” and Ramsay’s direction as “brutal but beautiful.”
It’s already being called one of the most intense performances of both their careers. When the trailer dropped this week, social media lit up over Lawrence’s transformative performance: her face streaked with tears and dirt, her laughter teetering between joy and madness.
Lou Thomas from NME praised the film as “an excellent film that will probably be in the running for big prizes come awards season.” Savina Petkova of Hammer to Nail called it “so compelling in a masochistic way, you’re bound to either love it or hate it,” noting that Ramsay has “never played it safe, nor have her characters.” And while The New Yorker’s Justin Chang found the film “overwhelmed by the flailing intensity of Ramsay’s approach,” even he admitted that her “frayed-nerves formalism” pushed the film to “punishing and unrevealing extremes.”
Ultimately, it’s that tension – between admiration and exhaustion, beauty and brutality – is exactly what makes Die My Love so hypnotic.
What Is Die My Love About?
Set in the quiet isolation of rural America, Die My Love tells the story of Grace (Lawrence), a new mother and writer grappling with psychosis after the birth of her son. Her husband Jackson (Pattinson) tries to hold their life together as Grace’s sense of self fractures under the weight of motherhood, marriage and identity. It’s a portrait not of weakness, but of raw, terrifying strength – the kind that comes from losing and rediscovering yourself at once.
Ramsay, known for the haunting precision of We Need to Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here, once again proves she’s cinema’s great empath for chaos. Her world isn’t one of tidy arcs or catharsis; it’s one of blood, sweat and half-heard screams in the middle of the night. In Die My Love, her camera lingers not on the horror of Grace’s unraveling, but on the beauty within it – the fierce, creative rage that defines a woman who refuses to disappear.
The film is a descent into the mind of a woman whose reality has cracked open — part domestic horror, part love story, part feminist myth. It’s about what happens when the world tells a woman to be everything — and she decides instead to become something entirely her own.
Lawrence has said she drew on her own “isolating” experiences of early motherhood while preparing for the role. She was in the early stages of pregnancy while shooting the film, and later revealed that Die My Love became an unexpectedly personal exploration of identity and survival.
Who Else Is In The Die My Love Cast?
Alongside Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in the lead roles of Grace and Jackson, the cast of Die My Love features an impressive ensemble. Screen legend Sissy Spacek brings quiet gravitas as Jackson’s mother, while Nick Nolte appears as her steadfast husband, Henry. Adding another layer of tension to the story, LaKeith Stanfield plays a mysterious drifter who becomes the object of Grace’s dark fascination.
When Is The Die My Love Release Date In Australia?
After making its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 17, Die My Love quickly became one of the most talked-about films on the Croisette. The haunting drama received a six-minute standing ovation and ignited a fierce bidding war, culminating in streamer Mubi acquiring global rights for $24 million – the festival’s biggest sale of the year. Although the Palme d’Or ultimately went to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, Die My Love cemented itself as a critical and commercial standout of the season. Australian audiences will see it first when it opens in cinemas on November 5, 2025.
