London Film Festival 2025 – Die My Love ★★★★

Released: 7 November 2025

Director: Lynne Ramsay

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson

Lynne Ramsay has always had such a talent in exploring how people are feeling. Whether it’s grief, alienation or even the complicated aspects of conflict within relationships. For example, 2011’s We Need To Talk About Kevin is a disturbing tale of a family tragedy. Ramsay’s fifth film is an adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel Die My Love, offering a raw and devastating look into motherhood and the difficult experiences surrounding postpartum depression. 

Jennifer Lawrence is a formidable force here as Grace, a young mother who lives with her husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson) in Montana. Their home, where Jackson grew up, offers the pair a chance to settle down quietly after escaping the busyness of New York. Grace, who is a writer, is left on her own much of the time, juggling motherhood while Jackson is often working away. When home he dismisses any sentiment of her wants and needs, ultimately leaving her questioning her sense of worth. There is a clear distance between the pair in their marriage since expanding their family. Ramsey through the smallest of movements and looks amplifies this change to a degree that as an audience you can relate to. 

Grace’s struggle with psychosis is vividly visualised through the artistic work of cinematographer Seamus McGarvey. It’s anxiety-inducing at times but in a thought-provoking way. One scene acts as a jump scare as the camera shoots directly to Grace smashing her head in a mirror. Ramsay isn’t painting Grace as a victim, instead allowing audiences into the mental aspect of how losing yourself can drive you emotionally down a drain – also mentally and physically. Since becoming a mother, Grace has struggled to continue writing. After putting her son back to sleep, she splashes blank ink onto some paper, and while doing so breastmilk drops onto the page mixing in with the ink. Ramsey’s ying-yang imagery is interesting to point out here, almost as if she is signalling the imbalance Grace is feeling. She loves her new role as a mother, but she also feels lost in her relationship. Finding that she needs love as an entirety and not half-glass full, which she isn’t receiving from Jackson. 

It’s hard to believe that this is the first time Lawrence and Pattinson have worked together. If anything, I’d argue that is a good thing their first time is with a project like Die My Love. As Grace and Jackson, they make for an electrifying yet heartbreaking duo. Pattinson is as great as you’d imagine; but it is Lawrence who steals the show. Due to the subject, a role like this is far from easy but Lawrence makes it seem real and relatable. While the film focuses on postpartum depression and how one can lose themselves, Ramsay and Lawrence’s collaboration have made it not a singular issue but one that is universal.  

As someone without children, it’s hard not to relate to the film’s overall message. We can all lose ourselves at some point in our lives. We can all be made to feel unloved, and it can really generate hard times that sometimes words can’t articulate. Die My Love is at times an uncomfortable watch, but it makes for an accurate mental image of how intense feelings can be. No one can do it like Lynne Ramsay. She captures feelings like she’s in our heads. It’s scary stuff but it’s films like these that people need to consume.