--- title: "Die My Love" year: 2025 kind: "film" canonical: "https://film.one/film/die-my-love" fi1m_id: "die-my-love" imdb_id: "tt9362736" tmdb_id: 1033148 wikidata_id: "Q117745793" fi1m_score: 71 critics_score: 81 critics_reviews: 15 published: "2026-09-09" updated: "2026-09-18T08:37:48.392537+00:00" region: "US" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Die My Love (2025) Directed by Lynne Ramsay · 1h 59m · MPA R · Drama ## Identity Die My Love - **Canonical:** https://film.one/film/die-my-love - **Type:** Film - **Fi1m ID:** die-my-love - **IMDb ID:** tt9362736 - **TMDB ID:** 1033148 - **Wikidata ID:** Q117745793 - **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9362736/, https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1033148, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117745793 **Fi1m score: 71** · Critics 81 from 15 reviews *In a sentence:* The baby sleeps, the dog barks, and Jennifer Lawrence crawls through the grass with a knife; her husband suggests a rest > Lynne Ramsay’s film about a new mother coming apart in a farmhouse is loud, fearless and often striking, and Jennifer Lawrence is as good as you have heard. But Ramsay keeps us outside Grace’s head, and the second hour repeats the first. ## Synopsis Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) leave the city for a farmhouse in rural Montana that belonged to his late uncle. They have a baby. Across the fields live Jackson’s parents, Pam (Sissy Spacek) and Harry (Nick Nolte), and on the road outside a stranger (LaKeith Stanfield) passes on a motorbike. Grace starts crawling through the long grass with a kitchen knife and picking fights at parties. Lynne Ramsay directs, from Ariana Harwicz’s novel, with a screenplay she wrote with Alice Birch and Enda Walsh, and the film stays close to Grace as she comes apart. ## Review This is Lynne Ramsay’s fifth feature and her first since *You Were Never Really Here* in 2017. She wrote it with Alice Birch and Enda Walsh from Ariana Harwicz’s novel about a woman who goes to pieces after having a baby. Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) move into his dead uncle’s house in rural Montana, have sex on the bare floor before the furniture has arrived, and the film is loud from that minute on. It is worth seeing, for Lawrence and for perhaps a dozen images we will not forget. We did not believe all of it, and by the second hour we were not sure the film did either. Ramsay is not making a case study. Nobody says the word postnatal in the first hour and nobody hands anyone a leaflet. Grace is shown as an animal from the start: prowling, sniffing, biting, watching a stranger on a motorbike (LaKeith Stanfield) pass on the road outside. The first time we see her in the long grass with a kitchen knife, moving on all fours while Seamus McGarvey holds the shot in low gold light, we were frightened before anything had happened, because the film had already told us how it intended to look at her. Lawrence, who also produced the film, with Martin Scorsese among the other producers, does the rest. She is funny, then frightening, then funny again, and she never once asks us to feel sorry for Grace. The house is the other lead. Tim Grimes fills it with the uncle’s leftovers and stained wallpaper, and McGarvey uses the open fridge as the main lamp for half the night scenes. The sound is relentless by design: pop songs at kitchen volume, a baby, and a dog Jackson brings home that barks through the night, laid over a score credited to Ramsay, George Vjestica and Raife Patrick Burchell. Toni Froschhammer cuts the days short and out of order, so we lose track of how long any of this has been going on. That is the point, and for an hour it works. Pattinson is the film’s quiet success. Jackson is not a villain. He is a tired man who buys a dog when the problem is his wife, who keeps suggesting she get some rest, who goes away for work and does not ask what happened while he was gone. Pattinson plays him as decent, useless and slightly afraid, and he is the character we understood best, which is an odd thing to say about a film that is about her. Sissy Spacek, as Jackson’s mother Pam, has a couple of scenes of plain sense the film badly needs. Nick Nolte, as his father Harry, says almost nothing and does not need to. Here is the trouble. Ramsay keeps Grace at arm’s length. We see her put herself through glass, dance alone in the kitchen, scream at a party; we rarely learn what she thinks about any of it. Hallucination and event are cut together without a join, so that when Jackson says a thing did not happen we cannot tell either, and after the fourth or fifth time we stopped caring which. The second hour brings another party, another fight, another night in the grass. We were exhausted, and then we noticed that our exhaustion was doing the film’s work for it. Set against her own films it is her loudest and her least precise. *We Need to Talk About Kevin* kept us locked inside a mother’s guilt for two hours and never let us out. [*Morvern Callar*](https://film.one/film/morvern-callar) gave us a woman we could not read and stayed calm around her so we could look. This one shouts at us for 119 minutes, and shouting is not the same as showing. See it in a cinema, where the volume is not yours to turn down and the racket lands as intended. It is a 15. Do not take a new parent unless they have asked to go. *Fi1m score 71, published 9 September 2026.* ## What the critics say Most critics come away impressed, and nearly all of them are talking about Jennifer Lawrence. The praise is for the ferocity of her performance as a new mother coming apart: physical, uninhibited, often funny in the middle of the horror. Lynne Ramsay’s direction is the other point of agreement, with the reviews crediting the sound design and hallucinatory imagery for putting the viewer inside Grace’s head rather than watching from outside. Several reviewers also single out Robert Pattinson’s quieter work as the husband. The reservations cluster around distance. Den of Geek and Paste find the film keeps Grace at arm’s length, showing the breakdown without explaining it, and Variety argues it would rather wallow in the chaos than understand it. The Los Angeles Times calls it exasperating. The one outright pan comes from The Times, which finds it incoherent and repetitive. Otherwise the spread is narrow: a run of four-star notices with a few sixes and sevens beneath. ## Straight answers **Is Die My Love worth watching?** *Die My Love* is worth watching for Jennifer Lawrence and for perhaps a dozen images we will not forget, and we scored it 71. Lynne Ramsay's film about a new mother coming apart in a Montana farmhouse is loud, fearless and often striking, but it keeps Grace at arm's length and the second hour repeats the first. See it in a cinema, and not with a new parent unless they have asked to go. **How long is Die My Love, and what is it rated?** *Die My Love* runs 1h 59m and is rated R by the MPA in the US. It is a drama film. **Where can I watch Die My Love in the US?** *Die My Love* is streaming on MUBI, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV in the US, and it is also available to rent from Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV from $5.99. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service. **How violent or frightening is Die My Love, and is it suitable for children?** *Die My Love* is a 15 in the UK and an R in the US, and it is not for children. It opens with sex on a bare floor and follows a mother who crawls through long grass with a kitchen knife, picks fights and hurts herself; the fear comes from her rather than from anyone chasing her. The squeamish should also know the sound is relentless by design. **How does Die My Love compare to We Need to Talk About Kevin?** *Die My Love* is the louder and less precise of Lynne Ramsay's two films about motherhood, and [*We Need to Talk About Kevin*](https://film.one/film/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin) is the one we would recommend first. Kevin locks us inside Tilda Swinton's guilt for two hours and never lets us out; this one keeps Jennifer Lawrence's Grace at arm's length and shouts where the earlier film showed. Choose Die My Love for Lawrence, Kevin for the film that is harder to shake off. **What should I watch after Die My Love?** After *Die My Love*, try [*We Need to Talk About Kevin*](https://film.one/film/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin) (2011, Fi1m 81): Ramsay’s other film about motherhood, quieter and more controlled, and harder to shake off. Then [*A Woman Under the Influence*](https://film.one/film/a-woman-under-the-influence) (1974, Fi1m 86): Gena Rowlands as a wife coming apart, with a husband who loves her and cannot help; and [*Repulsion*](https://film.one/film/repulsion) (1965, Fi1m 88): Polanski shuts a young woman in a London flat and lets the walls start moving. ### Reviews we read (25) - **Time Out**, Dave Calhoun (5/5): Ramsay delivers an artistically exciting and deeply uncomfortable portrait of a marriage and mind in free fall, with Lawrence giving a wildly impressive performance. The film is bleak yet has a musical, black-comic, big-hearted spirit that pulls the viewer through the despair. [Read](https://www.timeout.com/movies/die-my-love-review-2025) - **Empire**, Iana Murray (85/100, inferred): The critic praises the feral energy and Lawrence's uninhibited, career-best performance in this raw, animalistic character study of motherhood and postpartum psychosis. It notes the film can occasionally get lost in its turbulent dream-state but remains arresting and immersive. [Read](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/die-my-love/) - **Evening Standard**, Nick Howells (80/100, inferred): The critic calls it a daring, full-throttle blast with bonkers brilliance, highlighting Lawrence's superb, fun, and unhinged performance as a mother in meltdown alongside a spiky, audacious portrait that mixes heartbreak and berserk energy. It notes some tonal unevenness but finds the subject matter fitting. [Read](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-lynne-ramsay-b1253578.html) - **Radio Times**, James Mottram (4/5): Ramsay crafts a supremely well-crafted atmosphere piece that showcases Lawrence's raw talents in a measured decline into postpartum depression and mental unraveling. It is absorbing, quietly devastating and heartbreaking, with stunning cinematography building a cacophony of noise inside the protagonist's head. [Read](https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/die-my-love-review/) - **The Telegraph** (4/5): The review hails Lawrence's prowling, feral, unhinged intensity as Grace in this delirious drama of hormonal chaos and fragile ferocity, crediting Ramsay's hallucinatory style and the raw emotional power of the lead performance. [Read](https://telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/11/06/jennifer-lawrence-is-a-prowling-feral-wonder-in-die-my-love) - **The i Paper**, Francesca Steele (75/100, inferred): The critic finds Lawrence captivating and intelligent in this strange, angry, maximalist depiction of maternal rage and psychosis, capturing visceral confusion through folk-horror strangeness and expressionist imagery. It praises the unflinching approach to rage without easy resolution or clichés. [Read](https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/jennifer-lawrence-captivating-die-my-love-4020137) - **Financial Times** (★★★★☆): The review celebrates Ramsay's rare new film as a wild, impressionistic portrait of a doomed romance and a woman losing her mind, spotlighting Lawrence's amazing, shape-shifting performance that mixes comedy, savagery and vulnerability. [Read](https://ft.com/content/ab442883-ea10-41c5-a8a6-c88b789b467b) - **Los Angeles Times**, Amy Nicholson: The critic describes the film as a stubborn and exasperating postpartum nightmare that makes parenthood feel like being handcuffed to a sinking anchor, with Lawrence giving everything to a wild, brutal role but ultimately left dangling. Nicholson singles out Pattinson's subtle, clever performance as Jackson for praise while complaining about the lack of perspective into Grace and reductive elements in depicting her depression. [Read](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-11-05/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-sissy-spacek-lynne-ramsay) - **Screen Daily**: Lawrence gives a gripping, naturalistic performance as a new mother unravelling in terrifying fashion, lighting Ramsay's slow-burn psychological drama. The film examines postpartum depression, mental health and the passionate bond between volatile lovers with unnerving rhythms and fragile love-story elements. [Read](https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-sparks-lynne-ramsays-portrait-of-a-troubled-marriage/5205177.article) - **Sight and Sound**: The critic describes the film as a ferocious, maximalist psychodrama that portrays a woman's mental breakdown with vivid, unapologetic filmmaking. Lawrence delivers a fearless, full-body performance in this harrowing, solipsistic descent that offers no easy sympathy. [Read](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/die-my-love-lynne-ramsay-unlocks-fearless-performance-from-jennifer-lawrence) - **The Guardian**, Peter Bradshaw: The critic praises Jennifer Lawrence's ferocious performance as a woman descending into bipolar disorder and postnatal distress, and highlights Lynne Ramsay's muscular direction, intense sound design, and vivid cinematography that create an overwhelmingly sensual and angry study of passion and meltdown. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/17/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-excels-in-intensely-sensual-study-of-a-woman-in-meltdown) - **The Hollywood Reporter**, David Rooney: Ramsay's jagged character study is a punishing watch that pays off in the end as a thoughtful examination of a complex relationship. Lawrence delivers a no-holds-barred performance as a woman spiraling into psychosis, though the film keeps her at a distance and is easier to feel for Pattinson's despairing husband. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-1236220430/) - **The New York Times**: The review highlights Jennifer Lawrence's career-defining performance opposite Robert Pattinson in Lynne Ramsay’s latest as a mother in a demanding role. It notes the film's intense exploration of the character's descent while acknowledging it is not an easy watch. [Read](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/movies/die-my-love-review.html) - **The Observer**, Wendy Ide: Wendy Ide calls the film the most successful recent portrayal of the feral side of new motherhood, thanks to Lawrence's fearless, physically committed performance and Ramsay's bold, disorienting direction that immerses viewers in Grace's feverish, hallucinatory experience. [Read](https://observer.co.uk/culture/film/article/die-my-love-explores-the-feral-side-of-motherhood) - **The Times**, Kevin Maher (★☆☆☆☆): The critic pans the film as an awful, incoherent splatterfest of psychotic breakdown tropes that wastes Lawrence and Pattinson, with only occasional flashes of interest amid the excessive, repetitive excesses. [Read](https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-q09wxcjhv) - **Variety**, Owen Gleiberman: The critic calls it a showy yet strange and baffling hyperbolic projection of postpartum struggles, more eager to wallow in violent dysfunction than understand it, with Lawrence explosive but emotionally reined in. Gleiberman singles out Ramsay's gift for staging baroque breakdowns for note while complaining that the film lacks answers or responsible adult context around the characters. [Read](https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-1236401527/) - **The Playlist**, Rafa Sales Ross (A-): The review praises the film as a thorny psychological thriller rooted in the sustained unrest of early parenthood. Lawrence's mesmerizing, propulsive lead performance is highlighted as the undeniable force, alongside strong supporting turns. [Read](https://theplaylist.net/die-my-love-review-lynne-ramsay-returns-with-thorny-psychological-thriller-crowned-by-brilliant-jennifer-lawrence-cannes-20250520/) - **Deadline**, Damon Wise (85/100, inferred): The critic praises Lynne Ramsay’s mesmerizing film as a brutal but beautiful portrait of a woman’s mental disintegration due to post-natal depression. They single out Jennifer Lawrence’s standout performance, suggesting it could earn her another Oscar nomination. [Read](https://deadline.com/2025/05/die-my-love-review-lynne-ramsay-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-1236402485/) - **NME**, Lou Thomas (85/100, inferred): The critic praises Ramsay’s intense, twisting direction and Lawrence’s finest work to date as a committed, prowling performance that makes the film thoroughly compelling and awards-worthy. [Read](https://www.nme.com/reviews/film-reviews/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-3863494) - **Collider**, Emma Kiely (8/10): The critic calls it a defining film on the beauty and misery of motherhood, with Ramsay delivering a stylish, bombastic outpouring that dissects how women are changed by children against their will. They single out Jennifer Lawrence's hilarious and devastating tour-de-force performance as the standout element anchoring the uncompromising look at maternal isolation and needs. [Read](https://collider.com/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson/) - **/Film**, Chris Evangelista (8/10): The critic calls it a darkly funny, highly disturbing psychological domestic freakout anchored by Lawrence's feral, career-best performance. Ramsay's elemental direction and the film's off-kilter, haunting quality are noted positively. [Read](https://www.slashfilm.com/2019164/die-my-love-movie-review/) - **HeyUGuys**, Linda Marric (4/5): The critic finds the film a devastating and mesmerising exploration of motherhood, mental illness, and identity that refuses neat resolution. Lawrence's fearless lead performance and Ramsay's atmospheric direction are singled out as highlights. [Read](https://www.heyuguys.com/die-my-love-review-lff-2025/) - **The Wrap** (75/100, inferred): The critic finds the film a haunting domestic horror with outstanding performances from Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. They praise Ramsay’s direction for its spell-casting immersion in the unsettling aspects of the story, though note some rough edges. [Read](https://www.thewrap.com/die-my-love-review-robert-pattinson-and-jennifer-lawrence-are-outstanding-in-haunting-domestic-horror/) - **Paste**, Jesse Hassenger (6.9/10): The critic describes the film as a beguiling but frustrating primal scream about a mother's mental unraveling in rural isolation, with Ramsay's uncompromising style yielding striking visuals and Lawrence's raw, fearless physical performance. They single out the lack of concrete everyday details and resistance to sustained relational evocation as what undercuts its power. [Read](https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/lynne-ramsay/jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-die-my-love-lynne-ramsay) - **Den of Geek**, David Crow (65/100, inferred): The critic finds Ramsay’s stark meditation on motherhood compelling in its visual metaphors and Lawrence’s committed performance but faults the film for remaining distant and failing to fully internalize Grace’s interior perspective or anxieties. [Read](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/jennifer-lawrence-rose-byrne-mom-trauma-cinema/) ## Details - **Director:** Lynne Ramsay - **Director:** Lynne Ramsay - **Screenplay:** Lynne Ramsay, Enda Walsh, Alice Birch - **Cinematography:** Seamus McGarvey - **Editor:** Toni Froschhammer - **Music:** George Vjestica, Raife Patrick Burchell, Lynne Ramsay - **Production design:** Tim Grimes - **Producer:** Martin Scorsese, Jennifer Lawrence, Justine Ciarrocchi - **Cast:** Jennifer Lawrence as Grace; Robert Pattinson as Jackson; Sissy Spacek as Pam; LaKeith Stanfield as Karl; Nick Nolte as Harry; Gabrielle Rose as Jen; Clare Coulter as Courtney; Sarah Lind as Cheryl - **Runtime:** 1h 59m - **Certificate (MPA):** R - **Release (the US):** 7 November 2025 - **Genres:** Drama - **Box office:** $12 million - **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzXHW6Qe70 ## Where to watch in the US - MUBI: streaming, uhd - Amazon Prime Video: add-on, uhd - Apple TV: add-on, uhd - Amazon Prime Video: rent $5.99, uhd - Apple TV: rent $5.99, hd - Apple TV: buy $14.99, sd - Amazon Prime Video: buy $19.99, uhd *Checked 2026-09-10.* Also available in: AR, AT, AU, BE, BR, CA, CH, CL, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IN, IT, KR, MX, NL, NO, NZ, PA, PL, SE, TR, US. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country. ## If you liked this - *We Need to Talk About Kevin* (2011), Fi1m 81: Ramsay’s other film about motherhood, quieter and more controlled, and harder to shake off. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin.md) - *A Woman Under the Influence* (1974), Fi1m 86: Gena Rowlands as a wife coming apart, with a husband who loves her and cannot help. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/a-woman-under-the-influence.md) - *Repulsion* (1965), Fi1m 88: Polanski shuts a young woman in a London flat and lets the walls start moving. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/repulsion.md) - *Possession* (1981): A marriage ends in Berlin, at full volume, with Isabelle Adjani going further than Lawrence. - *Tully* (2018): The same exhaustion played as comedy, with Charlize Theron and a night nanny who arrives too late. --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. 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