Featuring the one-two punch of leads Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, sculpted in the hands of hugely talented Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Die My Love is an absorbing and quietly devastating relationship drama.
With no siblings and no parents alive, so we’re told, Lawrence’s Grace has stacked all her chips on creating a family with Jackson (Pattinson). With their young baby son, they move into a crummy rural house once occupied by Jackson’s uncle. There are rats and, perhaps, the stench of death.
We later learn that Jackson’s uncle Frank took his own life there. Meanwhile, close by, Jackson’s mother Pam (Sissy Spacek) must deal with her dementia-suffering father Harry (Nick Nolte).
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At one point Grace says she doesn’t have an issue bonding with her son. “He’s perfect,” she adds. “It’s everything else that’s fucked.” Ramsay smartly ramps up the pain, beginning when Jackson brings home a dog, whose incessant bark begins to drive Grace (and us) to distraction. Together with the buzzing flies that forever seem to be penetrating the household, Ramsay builds up a cacophony of noise that, on some level, is inside Grace’s head.
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