Die My Love (2025)
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.
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Last year, Amy Adams starred in Nightbitch, another adaptation of a novel that looked at the pain associated with motherhood and postpartum depression.
…last year we saw Amy Adams howling at the moon as NIGHT BITCH…
Late last year, another literary adaptation of a struggling mother came and left theaters without much attention. Nightbitch used a body horror metaphor to depict the mental state of an unhappy woman (Amy Adams) as she confronted her unease over her identity.
…films like Tully and Nightbitch that occupy similar territory…
Die My Love is what you get if you make Nightbitch without worrying about being approachable.
…with an emerging canon presenting a more clear-eyed portrait of women buckling under domestic stress – in last year’s Nightbitch, this fall’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and now Lynne Ramsay’s hallucinatory picture of postpartum depression, Die My Love.
Some actresses who have provided master classes playing women becoming unglued are Elizabeth Taylor in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (1966), Kathy Bates in “Misery” (1990) and Isabelle Adjani in “Possession” (1981), to name just a few.
…a classic Wife vs Husband meltdown à la Scenes from a Marriage or Possession…
I was reminded of both Possession — in which Isabelle Adjani’s character similarly begins descending into a sort of madness in a full-body visceral performance…
…a classic Wife vs Husband meltdown à la Scenes from a Marriage or Possession would be too tempting and familiar…
The harrowing adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel aligns with titles like If I Had Legs I’d Kick You or Rosemary’s Baby, depicting motherhood not as this angelic blessing, but grueling entrapment.
The Academy ratio is an homage to Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby that gives the sensation of being boxed in…
The Academy ratio is an homage to Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby…
The Academy ratio is an homage to Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby that gives the sensation of being boxed in…
The Academy ratio is an homage to Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby…
In that sense, Ramsay’s latest has more in common with A Woman Under the Influence, the John Cassavetes film where Gena Rowlands’ seemingly wild character that lashes out at an ordinary society that expects the impossible of her – all while treating her interiority as an afterthought.
…her unraveling more akin to Gena Rowlands' in John Cassavetes' "A Woman Under the Influence."
Grace’s mental breakdown recalls such titanic works of empathetic cinema as John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence…
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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is one of two go-for-broke portraits of maternal ambivalence this fall, the other being Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love.
Die My Love makes perfect company with films like Shinya Tsukamoto’s Kotoko (2011), The Piano Teacher (dir. Michael Haneke, 2002), Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (dir. John D. Hancock, 1971), and other portrayals of “hysterical” women.
…as well as a lesser-known Japanese psychological horror film called Kotoko, which also tries to show you mental illness by locking you into the protagonist’s point of view.
…which reminded me a little of Lawrence’s performance in Mother! – another film exploring intoxicating anxiety and psychological crashes.
The whole thing plays out like the love child of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!.
Unlike Darren Aronofsky's biblical Mother!, Ramsay's Die My Love is akin to a prison experiment.
The circumstances and escalation surrounding her character reminded me strongly of Mother!
The closest comparison would be her role in Mother! with regards to physical and psychological demands…
Lawrence’s performance in Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” (2017) and that film’s scenario of going mad in an isolated environment, far outshines everything in this movie.
Die My Love makes perfect company with films like Shinya Tsukamoto’s Kotoko (2011), The Piano Teacher (dir. Michael Haneke, 2002), Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (dir. John D. Hancock, 1971), and other portrayals of “hysterical” women.
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Some actresses who have provided master classes playing women becoming unglued are Elizabeth Taylor in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (1966), Kathy Bates in “Misery” (1990) and Isabelle Adjani in “Possession” (1981), to name just a few.
…and Kelly Reichardt’s River of Grass…