{"id":13396,"date":"2025-11-09T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:42:05","slug":"die-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/11\/09\/die-my-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Die My Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Die My Love<\/strong> (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MUBI\/Comedy-Drama\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 118 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sexual content, graphic nudity, language, some violent content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Lynne Ramsay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Enda Walsh, Lynne Ramsay and Alice Birch\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Raife Burchell, Lynne Ramsay and George Vjestica\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 7, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, Gabrielle Rose, Debs Howard, Sarah Lind.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0Die My Love <\/strong>is one of those films that will have you saying \u201cWTF?\u201d a lot. This obviously means it\u2019s not for everybody. Enter at your own risk.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Strangely enough, Die My Love<\/strong> is being described as a dark comedy. I can see the dark part, but a comedy? I hardly think so. This is a serious and seriously disturbing film about a woman mentally coming apart at the seams. It\u2019s like a modern version of Roman Polanski\u2019s Repulsion (1965) starring Catherine Deneuve.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) plays Grace, a young mother suffering from severe postpartum depression. She and her husband Jackson (Pattinson, The Batman) live in a house in the country that he inherited from his uncle. They initially seem like a happy (unmarried) couple. That changes when their son is born. It wasn\u2019t planned; it just happened. Communication between them breaks down. He takes a job that requires him to be away from home a lot leaving her alone in an empty house with a new baby. She has no close friends or family nearby except for Jackson\u2019s recently widowed mother Pam (Spacek, Coal Miner\u2019s Daughter) who has problems of her own.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jackson isn\u2019t very supportive when he is around. At one point, he brings home a dog who barks incessantly. Grace starts to lose her mind. She becomes erratic and moody. She engages in self-harm and inappropriate behavior. There\u2019s this motorcyclist (Stanfield, Get Out) who keeps vrooming by her house. He stops and stares at her through the visor on his helmet. He thinks about having sex with him. Is her real or just fantasy? The movie never gives a definitive answer to this. It leaves quite a few questions unanswered. That\u2019s where the brilliance of Die My Love <\/strong>lies. It doesn\u2019t explain itself. The audience is expected to figure things out (or not figure things out) for themselves. The term \u201cpostpartum depression\u201d is never uttered. It\u2019s just understood. This is going to be a deal-breaker for some potential viewers.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Director Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here) takes us inside the troubled mind of her protagonist. We see and hear the world around Grace from her damaged perspective. Ramsay uses sound to excellent effect. The noise never stops. It\u2019s oppressive and unrelenting. It brings on a feeling of sensory overload. It\u2019s the most unsettling aspect of the film. Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey employs a boxy 1.33:1 aspect ratio to create a sense of claustrophobia. Grace feels emotionally confined and isolated from a world that refuses to acknowledge the darker side of motherhood.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ramsay clearly made the right choice casting Lawrence in the role. She\u2019s an actress who isn\u2019t afraid to get her hands (and feet) dirty. Lawrence delivers a powerful, phenomenal performance here, never making Grace an object of pity or some saintly figure suffering in silence. She imbues Grace with a sense of vulnerability and helplessness while never downplaying the thoughtlessness of some of her actions- e.g. stripping down to her underwear and jumping in the pool at a kiddie party, [SPOILER ALERT] <\/strong>shooting the dog when she can\u2019t take the barking and whining anymore. She isn\u2019t always likable, but she\u2019s always sympathetic. Lawrence understands the difficult assignment and accomplishes it with aplomb.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Pattinson also does a great job as Jackson, the clueless partner who doesn\u2019t really understand what\u2019s going on with the mother of his child. He\u2019s more upset that they haven\u2019t had sex in a while. He tries to be patient with her, but her illness eventually takes its toll on him. His character is a tricky balancing act. He\u2019s not outright malicious, but he\u2019s not terribly sympathetic either. He might be cheating on her (there\u2019s evidence to support it), but the movie never confirms it. The Twilight actor shows incredible depth here, digging down to his core to play a basically good but flawed man who can\u2019t deal with what\u2019s happening at home.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Spacek does excellent work as the world-weary MIL who seems to somewhat understand what Grace is going through. She knows a thing or two about dealing with spousal illness. She cared for her dementia-ridden husband (Nolte, Affliction) for years. She knows something is going on with Grace, but she has her own problems and isn\u2019t in a place to help her. Nolte has only a couple of scenes, but he makes the most of what he\u2019s got. He\u2019s still got it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Die My Love<\/strong> is NOT to be taken lightly. It\u2019s not escapist fare. It\u2019s not an enjoyable viewing experience. You will feel as though you\u2019ve been through the wringer afterwards; emotionally, mentally and physically. It is, however, fascinating. It\u2019s horrific to watch Grace\u2019s descent into madness, but you can\u2019t bring yourself to look away, especially when it has you saying \u201cWTF?\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Die My Love (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MUBI\/Comedy-Drama\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 118 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sexual content, graphic nudity, language, some violent content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Lynne Ramsay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Enda Walsh, Lynne Ramsay and Alice Birch\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Raife Burchell, Lynne Ramsay and George Vjestica\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 7, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dramas","category-weird-ones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Die-My-Love-POSTER.jpg?fit=620%2C918&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13399,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions\/13399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}