A ferocious, sensory psychological drama that turns isolation, motherhood, and romantic collapse into something raw and unsettling. It’s less interested in plot mechanics than in emotional abrasion, but the performances and direction make it compelling if you want an intense, uncompromising experience.
28% ★☆☆☆☆ (536,254)
Die My Love
Where to watch: In Theaters
Movie · Drama · R
2025 · 1h 59m · ★ 28% (536K)
Everything. Is. Fine.
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek
Overview
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.
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 that turns isolation, motherhood, and romantic collapse into something raw and unsettling. It’s less interested in plot mechanics than in emotional abrasion, but the performances and direction make it compelling if you want an intense, uncompromising experience.
Best for
viewers who like psychological breakdown stories
fans of intense, performance-driven drama
audiences drawn to arthouse filmmaking and subjective imagery
people interested in motherhood, identity, and isolation
Skip if
you want a conventional, clearly plotted drama
you prefer emotionally reassuring or cathartic storytelling
you dislike abrasive, ambiguous, or highly stylized films
you want a warm or realistic portrait of early parenthood
Overview
Lynne Ramsay makes isolation feel physical here: the house, the landscape, and the silence all press in on Grace until the film becomes a study of pressure, not just circumstance. The result is less a domestic drama than a psychological fever dream, with motherhood and marriage treated as forces that can both anchor and erase a person.
Worth noting
Jennifer Lawrence gives the kind of performance that can carry a film built on instability, and Robert Pattinson plays absence as its own kind of violence. The film’s power comes from texture, mood, and accumulation rather than explanation, which will feel exhilarating to some and frustrating to others.
Bottom line
If you respond to cinema that trusts sensation over exposition, this is likely to land hard. If you need emotional clarity or a grounded relationship arc, it may feel deliberately elusive, even cold, but that distance is part of the design.
Top Letterboxd reviews
mary (2.5★) · 17469 likes
he could not match her freak and the dog paid for it
brooklyn (3.5★) · 11203 likes
lowkey felt like a 2 hour anti-pregnancy ad
matt lynch (3★) · 10035 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.
zoë rose bryant (4.5★) · 9803 likes
among many other things, a massive win for cat people
itscharlibb · 9793 likes
jenn lawrence was fucking electrifying and the john prine needle drop was HARD.
2011 · Drama, Thriller · 1h 53m · R · Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Philo, MUBI, OVID, Cineverse, Midnight Pulp, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Peacock Premium Plus
A chilling study of maternal dread, guilt, and emotional distance, with the same interest in dread over explanation.