Synopsis
Love Madness, Madness Love.
A woman living in a remote rural area is driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.
A woman living in a remote rural area is driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.
Öl, Sevgilim, 다이, 마이 러브, Умри, моя любовь, Die, My Love
perfect for anyone who thought mother! was too restrained. this is a hot mess about a hot mess but it’s so on fire the whole time i was happy to go along for the ride. we love to see Jennifer Lawrence swinging for the fences again, don't we folks.
Tremendous. The Ramsay, Lawrence, McGarvey combo is incendiary.
A lot of thoughts, but so far it’s my fave of the fest.
There is no journey, only circularity, only visceral human impulse and uproar and primal needs. I kinda love how you can frame something so complex as in fact straightforward: let these actors give it all, leave it all on the line. Show don’t tell and play it as loud as you fucking can. Never cuts away or lets you daydream, it’s so alive.
Destroying myself just to prove I exist. Thank god for Lynne Ramsay, Jennifer Lawrence, and Seamus McGarvey
DIE, MY LOVE finds the ever-fascinating & endlessly talented Lynne Ramsay back directing two shattering performances from Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson. Ramsay’s unflinching vision, paired with Lawrence’s soul bearing, erratic volatility & Pattinson’s pathetic helplessness, creates a nightmarish fever dream where the lines of reality are blurred, instincts become primal, hope is forsaken, and love is everlasting. I never wanted it to end. Lawrence’s portrayal of a postnatal mental collapse is not only leagues beyond her Oscar-winning work, but easily her most fearless & best performance since “mother!.” Unnerving sound design, jarring editing, and an unpredictable soundtrack, punctuated by bursts of shocking violence, shape this into a devastatingly beautiful meditation on madness & depression.
My full review on Next Best Picture here
Lynne Ramsay shaking the audience by the shoulders screaming: Feel something goddammit!
This might also be the best performance of Jennifer Lawrence’s career.
Might be my favorite Lynn Ramsay, though I’ll it it took me a while to process. Initially I mistook this as a complete torching of marriage and motherhood. But beneath the madness and psychosis is a raw, beating heart, resounding even in the film’s darkest moments
Jennifer Lawrence goes all out here and it’s a blast. It’s also cinematographer Seamus McGarvey’s best work since Nocturnal Animals.
The horse keeps running. The dog has got to go. The flies won’t stop buzzing. The rats are everywhere. Jennifer Lawrence’s Grace is at her most alive in the moments where she’s on all fours, creeping towards her husband, and when they’re devouring each other in an animalistic display of hunger and need. As postpartum domesticity sets in, the loss of this part of herself manifests in the form of animals who consistently plague her and the audience, constantly calling us back to her lack. There’s no getting rid of their stench or their sound. Felt a little left on the side of the road near the end as the film kept driving past its expected final destination. Before that though, this is a gravitational descent into the scariest parts of postpartum that grows more and more suffocating the closer we get. Fantastic to have Ramsey back with a new film, especially one as engrossing as this.
an indelible portrait of a woman caught in the fierce and fragile space between madness and motherhood. a film that occupies a rare space, one where cinematic beauty and emotional brutality co-exist in uneasy harmony with an electrifying performance from jennifer lawrence, one that redefines her range. she embodies Grace with a stripped-bare fury that makes her performance all the more chilling. also something else that really fascinated me here, is how good and masterful the sound design is, not simply as accompaniment but as a narrative device that reflects the fractured state of Grace’s mind. lynne ramsay directed this so sensitively & fearlessly and you actually feel that energy bubbling in every scene. raw, unfiltered chaos and i loved every minute of it.