Die My Love | Review
Images of Yellow Wallpaper: Ramsay Charts a Psychotic Break
For her first narrative feature in eight years, Lynne Ramsay returns with Die My Love, based on the 2019 novel by Ariana Harwicz. In essence, it’s a troubling, captivating character study of a woman come undone, which bears thematic similarities to her 2002 feature Morvern Cellar starring Samantha Morton. Jennifer Lawrence headlines with a blazing, acerbic performance as a woman suffering from postnatal depression, a situation exacerbated by a recent move to a dilapidated country home where isolation deepens her discontent. Retooling the novel (set in France) to an unspecified locale in the US, Ramsay also provides a clearer through line to the fragmented interiority of a protagonist who keeps hurling herself towards the precipice.… Read the rest
