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Jennifer Lawrence Gets to Act Her Age in Die, My Love
Lynne Ramsay’s postpartum phantasmagoria doesn’t go somewhere so much as it runs right off a cliff, and it’s Lawrence who holds its pieces together.
But no recent role has felt more like a declaration of the kind of actor she wants to be than the one she plays in Die, My Love, the new film from Lynne Ramsay that premiered at Cannes, based on a novel by Ariana Harwicz. As Grace, a woman experiencing a breakdown in the wake of the birth of her first child and a move out of the city into the rural area where her husband grew up, Lawrence is alight with an elemental chaos, breaking apart in such a way that it feels like the world is what’s gone wrong, and not her character. She exudes such a gravitational force that she curves all the other performances in the film around her energy, with Pattinson a whiny, ineffectual boy in her orbit, and Sissy Spacek quietly concerned but in decline herself as Jackson’s mother.
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