Jennifer Lawrence delivers career-best work in Die My Love, a flamethrower of a movie from director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin).
As Grace, a woman who moves to the country with her husband, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), to find quiet—only to completely unravel after giving birth—Lawrence puts it all on the screen. Everything she’s done before is a virtual fairytale compared to the terror she conveys in this movie, and she was in Mother!
Grace’s downfall is portrayed in an emotionally raw, shredding fashion, in much the same way that made Ramsay’s Kevin so memorably dark and disturbing. When Grace and Jackson fight in this movie, you’d be excused for being genuinely concerned for Lawrence and Pattinson’s welfare. I can’t remember when spouses fighting in a movie seemed so realistic, and so viscerally terrifying.
The supporting cast includes Sissy Spacek, who’s so good in her few scenes as Grace’s all-knowing mother-in-law. Pattinson does career-best work as well, but it’s overshadowed in this one: Lawrence owns Die My Love, and we are all the better for it. It’s always a good thing to see a great performer hitting their peak.
