Die, My Love, crazy love according to Lynne Ramsay
For her eighth selection at Cannes, Lynne Ramsay is back this year with a new feature film in Competition entitled Die, My Love, adapted from the novel by the Argentinian writer Ariana Harwicz. The two main characters are played by the American star, Jennifer Lawrence, and British star, Robert Pattinson.
Lynne Ramsay is back on the Croisette. The filmmaker has been a regular at the Festival de Cannes since her first graduate film, Small Deaths, which won the Jury Prize for the Best Short Film in 1996. The Scottish director has made her mark at the Festival many times with films, such as Ratcatcher, her amazing first feature film presented at Un Certain Regard in 2000, We Need to Talk about Kevin, the only British film up for the Palme d’or in 2011, and You Were Never Really Here featuring Joaquin Phoenix, which won the Award for Best Screenplay in 2017.
This year, the brief synopsis of Die, My Love, simply set in the French countryside where a young mother is “fighting her inner demons”, is an intriguing one. It is an adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel Die, My Love. The role of the mysterious protagonist is played by American actress Jennifer Lawrence, who has already been to Cannes in 2011 for The Beaver by Jodie Foster. Her male co-star is Robert Pattinson, who is making his fifth appearance on the red carpet, after appearing in two David Cronenberg films: Maps to the Stars in 2014 and Cosmopolis in 2012. The cast also includes Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.
