'Die, My Love' Review: Jennifer Lawrence Is Back on Top Opposite Robert Pattinson in Explosive Motherhood Tale | Cannes 2025

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Being a mother can be a fucking nightmare, and no two artists know that better than Lynne Ramsay and Jennifer Lawrence. The former directed one of the most effective forms of contraception, We Need to Talk About Kevin, where a mother is tormented by her psychopathic son, but is somehow the only one left standing in his wake. Lawrence, before taking a career hiatus, gave one of the most brutal performances of the past 10 years in Darren Aronofsky's mother! as a personification of Mother Nature who is beaten, attacked, and burned to a crisp, right after she watches her newborn baby be ravaged by intruders. Now, the two join forces for a no-holes-barred look at how mothers are treated in the real world, with no serial killer sons or biblical metaphors. Die, My Love follows Grace, a new mother left at home to do nothing but mourn her writing career and wonder whether her husband, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), is cheating on her, as she spirals into a depression that doesn’t derive from an imbalance of hormones, but how the world has changed its view of her since having a child.

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