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‘Die My Love’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence Shines In Lynne Ramsay’s Brutal But Beautiful Portrait Of A Woman On The Edge – Cannes Film Festival
‘Die, My Love’ review: Jennifer Lawrence shines in Lynne Ramsay’s brutal but beautiful portrait of a woman on the edge – Cannes Film Festival
The dark screen that starts the film is an indication of where we are, a great, black void accompanied by the buzzing of a fly, a sound that returns intermittently and, with the magic of Dolby Atmos, even seems to ricochet round the auditorium. Ramsay portrays this capture in a disturbing sequence set to Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” in which Lawrence makes grotesque shapes, compulsively uttering the phrase “All righty.” But Grace is not a domestic goddess, and her disinterest in housekeeping is further underlined when Jackson comes home with a dog (“We need a cat,” she says). But Ramsay doesn’t take anything from that film’s exponentially creepy structure, she draws instead on its harrowing ending, a frozen image of its protagonist as a child, leaving us to reflect on the damage done and the ugly spirit that lives in outwardly beautiful people (to quote Shakespeare, “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”).
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