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Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in Die My Love (Seamus McGarvey)<\/p>\n
Anticipation for the cult Scottish director\u2019s output is always huge and long-drawn-out, this being only her fifth film in 26 years and her first since 2017\u2019s You Were Never Really Here (starring Joaquin Phoenix and not her best).<\/p>\n
Well, whatever your preconceptions, the unhinged lunacy hurled at you in the first three minutes will decide whether Die My Love is for you or not. The Marmite is dripping off this one.<\/p>\n
Suggestion: leg it from the cinema if you don\u2019t like it by the time the opening credits roll, because the rest \u2013 a wildly escalating riff on the same \u2013 will not make you happier. You\u2019ll be missing a cracking film though.<\/p>\n
Those few minutes? Flaming trees! Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> and Robert Pattinson<\/a> having chaotic sex like rabbits on speed! A brain-rattling punk song playing over it all! Lawrence\u2019s deliriously deranged Grace crawling on all fours through long grass with a knife and masturbating!<\/p>\n It’s audacious, spiky, totally in your face, and just a taster of the mental storm enveloping Grace. Less of a story, this is simply a portrait of a woman truly on fire \u2013 don\u2019t look for a narrative arc here.<\/p>\n Grace and Jackson (Pattinson) have just had their first child and moved to his dead uncle\u2019s isolated house in the woods. \u201cHow did he die?\u201d Grace asks. Let\u2019s not spoil the surprising answer, which pours fuel on Grace\u2019s meltdown, but also provides her with one of the film\u2019s most hilarious lines.<\/p>\n Yes, shock, Die My Love is funny too. Laugh-out-loud so on occasions. At a party with the identikit, Stepford mums of the area, one tells Grace that most women go loopy after giving birth and have their brains taken away for a while, to which Grace replies: \u201cWhen are you getting yours back?\u201d<\/p>\n Jennifer Lawrence in Die My Love (Kimberly French)<\/p>\n Those who loved the gorgeously innovative, naturalistic camerawork in Ramsay\u2019s Morvern Callar will be split on the massively amped-up version here: a drop of Grace\u2019s breastmilk falls onto a splash of black ink, the two-tone swirl morphing into a view of the night sky as seen through Jackson\u2019s telescope.<\/p>\n And then, whoosh! In kicks another bone-thudding tune and here comes Grace crashing through a window.<\/p>\n Nigglingly, while the soundtrack is a parade of banging deep cuts (including In Spite of Ourselves, John Prine and Iris DeMent\u2019s country ode to sniffing undies), there seems to be a reliance on them to power many of the scenes.<\/p>\n Inside, Grace is going through all the circles of hell but really trying not to give a shit, and Lawrence brilliantly gives it the whole nine yards (she should be getting the \u201ccrazy\u201d Oscars nod, like Demi Moore in The Substance last year).<\/p>\n One moment she\u2019s prancing around like a demented floppy bunny to Toni Basil\u2019s Mickey, the next her face is pressed up against a pane of glass, jaw gurning away in despair as she licks the window.<\/p>\n What\u2019s Pattinson\u2019s Jackson doing all this time? Well, mainly standing back, giving Grace \u201csome space\u201d and watching the whole show \u2013 another dividing line for the audience, as some are really, really going to be more disapproving of Jackson than others.<\/p>\n![\"Jennifer](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/48f3a1de8c39c35e431639ce4b996608.jpeg\"\/)
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