Film Review: DIE MY LOVE (2025): Jennifer Lawrence is Intense in a Solemn and Dark Drama From Lynne Ramsay

Die My Love Review

Die My Love (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Lynne Ramsay, written by Enda Walsh, Alice Birch and Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, LaKeith Stanfield, Gabrielle Rose, Clare Coulter, Saylor McPherson, Kasmere Trice Stanfield, Zoe Cross, Sarah Lind, Luke Camilleri, Mateo Moreno, Victor Zinck Jr. and Debs Howard.

Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) has rarely, if ever, been a filmmaker to bring happy stories to the screen. Her latest, Die My Love, is a (literally) fiery tale of suppressed passions and desires set mostly near a home in Montana. This film stars Jennifer Lawrence as Grace, a mom of a new baby who, perhaps, best defines her attitude in a scene where Grace tells a cashier (Saylor McPherson) to cut the small talk and just ring her up. Grace is full of deep thoughts and intense emotions. She is a writer stuck in a rut who gets to engage in steamy sex regularly with her lover and companion, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), but she still seems to feel a void in her life. The passion is there, but when it’s over, is that all there is?

Grace asks Jackson if his visions of them in another life include her becoming a rock star in that other existence. Jackson reminds Grace that she doesn’t really have the requisite singing talents to be a rock star, but she seems so self-absorbed that she doesn’t care. Grace day dreams of a bigger life for her and, possibly, her family too. She’s rather careless when she leaves her baby right by a large knife. She goes through a glass door at one point, a dog dies in an accident and the all-caring mother, Pam (the great Sissy Spacek), tries to tell her to go and do yoga with an instructor who’s an old friend of Grace’s or to write to keep her mind off all the misery she is facing in her life. Pam doesn’t know Grace is that bad. The audience has a sneaky suspicion, however, that she is in pretty bad shape.

Grace takes her baby deep into the woods and puts the child near a horse’s face. The child seems resistant and rightfully so. There’s also Grace’s older, father figure Harry (Nick Nolte), who is trying to set his pairs of shoes straight when we initially meet him in the picture. Pam and Harry look at the world differently than Grace who is obviously suffering internally from something resembling a great human depression. Jackson may be able to stir her up with intimate sex, which makes her happy in the moment, but there’s no chance of making her happy for an entire day. Is there?

A number of scenes in Die My Love are appropriately solemn and unsettling. When the dead dog is dug up late in the movie, Grace has a reaction which is on-point thanks to Lawrence’s fine acting here. Pattinson still looks like he’s in a superhero movie (he’s played Batman and starred in the Twilight films) and that may be why Ramsay cast him in the part. Grace is with Jackson, this heroic type of man, who can’t satisfy her at the end of the day despite all the efforts that he makes. Jackson seems to mean well, but if Grace has a cake to celebrate a special occasion, there’s nothing that’s going to rock her world or change it given her desire for more than the mundane existence she is immersed in allows her to experience.

Lawrence really tries her best to keep the character she plays relatable and she’s successful, for the most part. There’s a dark and depressing nature about the movie that is typical for a Ramsay film. Ramsay isn’t a filmmaker who sugarcoats anything and the ending of Die My Love is straightforward and larger than life at the same time. Ramsay’s complex themes serve her well at given intervals and the sorrows Grace faces in her life can become the audience’s grievances as well thanks to Lawrence’s top-notch work.

Nolte is, without a doubt, under-used, but Spacek does have a couple of memorable scenes as her character tries so hard to steer Grace in the right direction. It’s great to see the multi-talented actress working again and though Nolte isn’t in the spotlight too much here, he does make an impact with the few moments he does have. Pattinson is the more hopeful character in the film when juxtaposed to Grace, but Ramsay’s movies typically lack in the hope department and are more reminders of the horrors found in everyday life than the beauties in it.

Die My Love is a nice companion piece to If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Both movies feature mothers whose lives have come crashing down on them right before their very eyes. Ramsay’s picture is inferior to the other Rose Byrne-starrer, but still has a lot of moments that will serve as thought-provoking ones in a movie that is intentionally overly sad and, as suggested, frustrating to watch in spots.

Lawrence is next set to help bring a story about Miss Piggy to the big screen. That’s a good direction for the actress after the devastating tale Die My Love tells. Ramsay has crafted a well-constructed movie that just falls apart at the seams in some key moments towards the end. That doesn’t mean the actual conclusion doesn’t pack a wallop, though, and the powerful ending of Die My Love is just enough to get it over the slumps and make it recommended viewing.

Rating: 7/10

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