'Die My Love' Review: An Exhausting, Uncomfortable and at Times Darkly Comedic, Trippy Experience
- Jack Ransom
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By Jack Ransom - January 22, 2026
The latest from director Lynne Ramsay. Die My Love sees Grace (Jennifer Lawrence), a writer and young mother, slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), increasingly worried and helpless.
Unfortunately, I missed this at the cinema when it released towards the end of last year (my cinema motivation had taken a hit), however I jumped at the chance for an early digital viewing thanks to MUBI providing a screener before the film’s at home release. Big exhale after this one! Certainly understand why it’s somewhat divisive (a lot of scoring in the middle ground), but I was increasingly locked into its off-kilter and prickly tone.
There isn’t really a core plot or goal to Die My Love, more so than just increasingly awkward, intense, uncomfortable and unpredictable situations as Grace becomes more and more overwhelmed and hyper-sensitive to her surroundings. It starts off with a frisky wave of optimism as she and Jackson move into their new house and then become parents. However, when Grace’s isolation, loneliness, boredom and lack of creative spark set in… coupled with a fittingly irritating spontaneous dog brought by Jackson, Grace begins to snap.
Thematically Die My Love is not subtle in its presentation. Postnatal depression, motherhood, sex, jealousy, suspicion… they are all at the forefront of the screenplay and Ramsay doesn’t shy away from any of them. Grace’s utter exhaustion at everyone telling her how and what she should be feeling, her frustration at Jackson for his lack of sexual desire towards her, outbursts of rage and jealousy towards their dog and interludes of passion with a mysterious motorcycle riding stranger.
Stylistically this is a tour-de-force and it looks great. Shot in 4:3, the film is incredibly claustrophobic, boasts a sepia-tinged/washed out palette and utilises background focus blurring to prominent and nauseating effects. Frequent night-time sequences have an almost dreamlike quality to them and the flowing, jumpy, handheld camerawork puts you right there as a surveyor watching the couple unfold.
Jennifer Lawrence is an absolute force of nature here. Crawling, writhing, barking, cackling, smashing up rooms, dancing and leaving nothing off the table, she is giving every once here at conveying Grace’s struggle. Robert Pattinson has his outburst of craziness as well, and blends the distant-caring-concerned-yet-not-quite-as-understanding-partner, with a stab of booziness and snark. The pair together are a fiery duo. Lastly, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte and a near-silent and aura farming LaKeith Stanfield make up a solid supporting cast.
Die My Love is an exhausting, uncomfortable and at times darkly comedic and trippy experience led by Lawrence’s powerhouse performance. The film looks great and flows through its spiralling mental breakdown of a structure. Sure, it can feel a little repetitive at times and doubles down on making sure you really understand what it’s trying to get across, but this was a fittingly uncomfortable, stabbing two hours.
'Die My Love' releases on MUBI on January 23, 2026.
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