Jennifer Lawrence positively burns up the screen as Grace, a mother experiencing post-partum depression in Lynne Ramsay’s intoxicating fifth film. With Die My Love, which Ramsay adapted with co-writers Alice Birch and Enda Walsh from the 2012 novel by Ariana Harwicz, the director has found the perfect material to realise her febrile vision of mental illness and a love that burns too bright. Grace and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) have relocated from New York to a secluded farmhouse in Montana, seeking a fresh start close to his parents (Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte). However, the birth of their child triggers Grace’s descent into psychological turmoil, marked by hallucinations and erratic behaviour.

Notes by David O’Mahony