Die My Love (2025)

A writer and young mother (Jennifer Lawrence) is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, she becomes increasingly agitated and erratic. Her boyfriend (Robert Pattinson) seems helpless in this situation. Based on the novel MATATE AMOR by Ariana Harwicz and directed by Lynne Ramsay (WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN). The film suggests that post partum anxiety is responsible for Lawrence's descent into madness but I think that was just a trigger for someone who wasn't healthy to begin with and would eventually have gone batshit crazy anyway. I certainly can empathize with her apathy living in the boondocks with a clueless boyfriend. Signs of her instability are clearly there but the boyfriend seems to be in denial, that it's just a phase and it can be worked out. Some parts of the film are unclear. Is Lawrence's black lover (LaKeith Stansfield) real or a figment of her psychosis? One has to admire Lawrence's commitment to her character. Her performance is terrific and perhaps in any other year (2025 was an excellent year for female performances), it would have gotten more awards attention. Unrelentingly grim but worth a watch. With Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte and Gabrielle Rose.