Lede
When a film about emotional collapse leaves its audience equally lifeless, something’s off the reel.
Love dies slowly. So will your attention span.
Movie Synopsis Roast: Die My Love (2025)
A woman unravels in rural Montana. That is the spine of the story. She drifts through the landscape in a fog of postpartum despair, hallucinations, and violent impulses that no one around her seems prepared to face.
The film wants to dissect the brutality of an internal collapse, but often ends up filming long silences and slow pans like they are sacred scripture. It aims for poetry, yet often feels like watching dust float in a beam of light.
The synopsis promises an intimate portrait of a woman losing her grip on reality. What it delivers is a slow, wandering spiral where the emotional punch hides behind mood lighting and meditative pacing. You spend half the film waiting for a moment of clarity, and the other half realising the chaos is the point.
The title Die My Love aims for tragic intensity, but on screen it risks translating as Doze, My Audience, especially for viewers expecting more movement and less atmospheric brooding.
DIE MY LOVE | Official Trailer | In Theaters November | With Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson
Cast and credits
Director: Lynne Ramsay.
Writers: Enda Walsh, Lynne Ramsay, Alice Birch.
Based on: novel Die, My Love (2012) by Ariana Harwicz
Main cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte.
Composer(s): George Vjestica, Raife Burchell, Lynne Ramsay.
Studios: Black Label Media, Excellent Cadaver, Sikelia Productions.
Runtime: 119 minutes.
Releases: Cannes Film Festival 17 May 2025 (world premiere).
What does not make sense
- The film mistakes silence for depth.
- Every scene feels like a painting left too long to dry.
- Big names, small pulse.
- Melancholy is fine, but here it acts like weaponised boredom.
- The nude as metaphor trick stopped working a decade ago.
Sense check / The numbers
- Budget: Estimated 15 to 20 million USD. Most of it looks spent on long takes and emotional fog. [BoxOfficeWala]
- Runtime: 119 minutes that drift by like slow rain on a window. [The Numbers]
- Audience score: About 46 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes PopcornMeter. [Rotten Tomatoes]
- Cast: Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson lead, though both are stranded in a script that gives them little air. [IMDb]
- Premiere: Cannes Film Festival, 17 May 2025, where the response leaned more polite than passionate. [Wikipedia film]
The sketch
Panel 1: A critic watches the first half hour. Caption: “Maybe the silence means something.”
Panel 2: Two hours later. Same critic asleep under a projector beam.
Panel 3: Director whispering, “It’s art,” as the credits roll and only the janitor claps.
What to watch, not the show
- The growing trend of “trauma chic” cinema.
- Directors confusing slowness with soul.
- Actors trapped in scripts that treat dialogue like an optional feature.
- How festivals still reward despair over dynamism.
The Hermit take
Art can wound beautifully, but here it merely numbs.
If despair is the message, it could have been a poem, not a punishment.
Keep or toss
Toss.
Keep the soundtrack.
Toss everything else, including the endless staring into nothing.
Sources
IMDb – https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9362736/
Letterboxd – https://letterboxd.com/film/die-my-love/
Variety – https://variety.com
Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_My_Love
Budget estimate: “The High / Big / Modest Budget of Die, My Love – BoxOfficeWala” – https://boxofficewala.com/news/the-high-big-modest-budget-of-die-my-love-and-where-every-dollar-was-spent/
Audience score: “Die My Love (2025) | Rotten Tomatoes” – https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/die_my_love_2025
Box office numbers: “Die, My Love (2025) – Box Office and Financial Information – The Numbers” – https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Die-My-Love-%282025%29
