Presented in Competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, “Die My Love” marks the highly anticipated return of Lynne Ramsay. Adapted from the novel by Ariana Harwicz, this psychological drama explores the long slide of a housewife and mother toward psychosis.

Jennifer Lawrence plays Grace, a woman living with husband isolated in the countryside who battles postpartum and turns psychotic. Her absent and unfaithful husband, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), tries to understand his wife’s distress but it’s all in vain. He’s helpless in the face of her mounting personal crises.

Lynne Ramsay immerses the viewer in Grace’s tormented mind. The line between reality and hallucination blurs, reflecting the character’s mental confusion. Seamus McGarvey’s cinematography and the oppressive soundtrack reinforce this anxious atmosphere.

“Die My Love” is a bold exploration of motherhood and mental illness, driven by masterful direction and an exceptional performance from Jennifer Lawrence.

Lynne Ramsay’s interest in bringing a character like Grace to the screen lies in her apparent desire to examine the darkest and most intimate areas of the human psyche, particularly those that society prefers to silence: mental suffering, nonconforming impulses, maternal ambivalence.

Grace is an ordinary mother, with the occasional trepidation about being motherly. The character Ramsay imagines in no way conforms to social expectations of motherhood. Known for focusing on this type of marginal, troubled, or deviant figure, the Scottish director seeks to make the invisible visible by breaking stereotypes.

Mental disorders, especially in women, are often minimized or pathologized in a simplistic manner, and the film precisely seeks to give us an inside look at what it’s like to live with a mental illness. In radical cinema such as this, the unstable character allows for a narrative that’s sensory. Her unhinged episodes convey sensations that sometimes go beyond words. It’s truly surprising!

Another of Ramsay’s ambitions, through the embodiment of mental illness, is to establish another form of dialogue with the audience, to include them in the story and make them experience pathos. By placing the viewer in the shoes of an unstable character, Ramsay makes them uncomfortable and forces them to feel rather than judge.

“Die My Love” is thematically in line with Ramsay’s previous films exploring female violence, often denied or repressed, and stigmatization.

Making a film with such a character is, for Ramsay, a way to challenge taboos, to offer a different image of women, and to explore post-partum, one’s denial of motherhood, emotional geographies that are rarely represented in cinema.