★★★½
Capsule Review
Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love is a scorching and uncompromising examination of a woman's mental deterioration starting with her postpartum depression and following her through a maddening descent into the darkest recesses of her mind. The sequence of events unravels. How much is authentic? Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star as Grace and Jackson, who move into an old family home and aim to start a family there. After the birth of her child, Grace experiences depression and boredom, but she also exhibits odd behavior like crawling on the ground and hallucinating. While the movie progresses more or less in a linear fashion, there are seemingly unrelated sidesteps in the narrative and drastic jumps in time that illustrate Grace's fragmented state of mind. Lawrence's performance is stellar. John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence is a clear inspiration, but Ramsay's movie stands on its own with its surreal imagery to carry it.
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