After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.
Ratings
Curator score: 3.3/10
IMDb: 6.0/10
Letterboxd: 3.17/5
Metacritic: 72
TMDB: 6.1/10
Director
Lynne Ramsay
Production
Excellent Cadaver, Sikelia Productions, Black Label Media
Cast
Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, Gabrielle Rose, Clare Coulter, Sarah Lind, Luke Camilleri, Victor Zinck, Jr., Debs Howard, Phillip Forest Lewitski, Georgina Lightning, Darren Moore, Lauren Viau, Michael Shepherd, Qado, Kasmere Trice Stanfield, Tom Carey, Tyler Lynn Smith
Where to watch
MUBI
Curator Review
Verdict
A ferocious, sensory psychological drama about isolation, motherhood, and identity unraveling under pressure. It sounds less like a conventional postpartum story than an intense interior breakdown, driven by bold performances and Lynne Ramsay’s abrasive, poetic style.
Best for
Viewers who like uncompromising psychological dramas
Fans of performance-driven, actor-forward cinema
People drawn to films about motherhood, identity, and mental strain
Audiences who appreciate vivid sound/image design and subjective storytelling
Skip if
You want a clear, plot-heavy narrative
You prefer emotionally reassuring or cathartic dramas
You dislike ambiguous, abstract, or highly stylized filmmaking
You are looking for a straightforward postpartum or domestic realism story
Overview
Die My Love looks like Lynne Ramsay at her most punishing and precise: a story of domestic exile, bodily unease, and emotional collapse rendered as a fever dream. The Montana setting doesn’t open the film up; it tightens the screws, turning distance, silence, and routine into sources of dread.
Worth noting
Jennifer Lawrence appears to be carrying the film from the inside out, with a performance built on fracture rather than explanation. The strongest reactions suggest a movie that is less interested in tidy psychology than in the lived sensation of losing your grip on selfhood, desire, and language.
Bottom line
That approach will likely be electrifying for some and frustrating for others. If you respond to cinema that is raw, subjective, and formally aggressive, this should be essential; if you need emotional legibility or narrative comfort, it may feel more like an ordeal than a drama.
Top Letterboxd reviews
mary (2.5★) · 17247 likes
he could not match her freak and the dog paid for it
brooklyn (3.5★) · 10880 likes
lowkey felt like a 2 hour anti-pregnancy ad
matt lynch (3★) · 9924 likes
Couple of really tremendous performances here by two actors who are being asked to not play any recognizable human being, just constructs to be abstracted. It's gorgeous and Ramsay is never less than ferocious in her intent and execution, it's just that there's nothing here to hold onto; not their relationship, not her motherhood, not even her mental state, because we don't see for one second what is or isn't being lost from any of that. Experientially this is pretty terrific but as drama it's totally inert.
itscharlibb · 9728 likes
jenn lawrence was fucking electrifying and the john prine needle drop was HARD.
zoë rose bryant (4.5★) · 9686 likes
among many other things, a massive win for cat people
2011 · Drama, Thriller · 1h 53m · R · Curator 6.8/10 (710.7K ratings) · Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Philo, MUBI, OVID, Cineverse, Midnight Pulp, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Peacock Premium Plus
A cold, unsettling study of maternal alienation, guilt, and the fear of not fitting the role.