Lynne Ramsay has never been one to shy away from disturbing portrayals of challenging subject matter, and her new film “Die My Love” sees the auteur probing the depths of postpartum depression.
Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star as a married couple who move to the countryside after having their first child, with Lawrence’s Grace losing herself in a psychosexual frenzy as she adapts to her new life with a baby.
The film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio wrote that “I don’t think there has ever before been such a psychologically immersive view of postpartum depression as ‘Die My Love’ onscreen. The film careens between a dreary sludge of despair and eventual heart-palpitating nightmare, Grace caught in a mercurial storm of her own moods without ballast and unable to be understood by those around her.”
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Ramsay directs from a screenplay she co-wrote with Enda Walsh and Alice Birsh, based on the novel by Ariana Harwicz. LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek also star, with Lawrence, Martin Scorsese, Andrea Calderwood, Justine Ciarrocchi, Thad Luckinbill, Trent Luckinbill, and Molly Smith serving as executive producers.
While promoting the film at Cannes, Lawrence praised Ramsay’s directorial vision and on-set presence while opening up about the experience of shooting “Die My Love” while pregnant with her own child.
“I’m not really an actor who brings my work home,” Lawrence said. “Part of what she’s going through is the hormonal imbalance that comes from postpartum. She’s also having an identity crisis. Who am I as a mother? Who am I as a wife? Who am I as a sexual person to my husband? Who am I as a creative? She’s plagued with this feeling that she’s disappearing. For me, I was four and a half, five months pregnant when we shot. I had great hormones! I was feeling great, which is the only way I would be able to dip into this emotion…also in terms of answering any question about my acting or performance at all, I had Lynne Ramsay as my director, so that kind of is it.”
A MUBI release, “Die My Love” opens in theaters on Friday, November 7. Watch the trailer below.
