Screening at Cannes: Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Die, My Love’

Although it eventually loses staying power, Lynne Ramsay’s ferocious relationship drama Die, My Love quickly seeps beneath your skin, practically holding you hostage in its initial half. Ramsay’s first feature in eight years—after the Cannes crime drama You Were Never Really Here—casts Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in its leading roles, as Grace and Jackson, a pair of newlyweds who inherit a Montana farmhouse. This rural, isolated setting plays host to the couple’s steadily crumbling relationship...