Keswick Film Club - Reviews - Die My Love

Last Sunday saw Jennifer Lawrence battling with her demons in Die My Love. A difficult watch for the subject matter, it split the audience pretty evenly, rewarding if only for the possibly career best performances of the stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson as the young couple dealing with a new life in rural Montana with a young baby, elderly parents and possibly post natal depression.

Based on the 2012 novel by Ariana Hawicz (an Argentian writer based in France), it proved to be a surreal and intense exploration of possible post natal depression, psychosis, isolation, and the unravelling of a marriage after childbirth, alongside generational themes of mental decline; ….Good to see Nick Nolte , here as one of the grandparents, who suffers from dementia and Sissy Spacek as the empathetic mother-in-law. We could identify with the story; the challenges that come in real life from marriage, child birth, while trying to work while trying to keep all the plates spinning. The story unfolds as the mother a writer descends into increasingly erratic behaviour, driven by her own lust and terror towards an inevitable breaking point; her unfulfilled literary passion is a key element of her breakdown. We watch in the comfort of The Alhambra while the film made us feel anything but.