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‘Die My Love’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence Is a Mother Grappling with Postpartum Depression (and Punk-Rock Angst) in Lynne Ramsay’s Showy Mess of a Marital Psychodrama

Lawrence is a mother grappling with postpartum depression (and punk-rock angst) in a movie more eager to wallow in dysfunction than understand it.

This situation typifies the dynamic of “Die My Love,” which is this: Grace acts out in delirious, raging, violent, inexplicable ways — and Jackson, while understandably dismayed at her behavior, reacts to it by rarely lifting a finger to do anything that would help her. Yet “Die My Love” serves up a showy yet strange, in many ways baffling hyperbolic projection of what can take place in the hearts and minds of women during the first months (or even years) of motherhood. Jackson checks Grace into a mental hospital, and she gets “better,” to the extent that that means she emerges eager to back cakes and hide her darkness behind a sunny agreeability that looks like a parody of happy-homemaker domesticity.

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