One of the movies we are most excited about from this year’s Cannes lineup is Lynne Ramsey’s Die My Love, which will hit screens Stateside in just over a month. Ramsey’s a truly generational talent — if you haven’t seen You Were Never Really Here, it’s got the best Joaquin Phoenix performance since The Master in it — and seeing her work with the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek is, well, incredibly fucking exciting. If there’s anybody who can take a Stephen King-like premise such as this one (a writer starts to go fucking nuts in isolation), it’s her. Mubi, which snagged the rights out of Cannes, dropped a trailer for the film earlier on Monday, and goddamn it, it looks great.
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Here’s a synopsis for Die My Love via Mubi:
“From renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, ‘Die My Love’ is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness. Anchored by a ferocious, tour de force performance from Jennifer Lawrence, and co-starring Robert Pattinson.
The film follows Grace (Lawrence) and her partner Jackson (Pattinson), who have recently moved into an old house deep in the country. With ambitions to write The Great American Novel, Grace settles into her new environment, and the couple welcome a baby soon after. However, with Jackson frequently – and suspiciously – absent, and the pressures of domestic life starting to weigh on her, Grace begins to unravel, leaving a path of destruction in her wake.
Based on Ariana Harwicz’s celebrated novel and co-starring Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield and Nick Nolte, Ramsay marks her eagerly-awaited return with this fearless new cinematic vision that charts the complexity of love and how it can change and transform over time.”
Die My Love hits theaters on November 7.