---
title: "Die My Love (2025) review"
description: "Another feel-good summer romance from Lynne Ramsay /s"
url: https://www.joekarlsson.com/reviews/die-my-love/
---

![A still from Die My Love (2025)](https://www.joekarlsson.com/images/reviews/die-my-love/backdrop.webp)

# Die My Love (2025)

Jan 14, 2026 | 2 min read | Rated 3.5 out of 5 | Dir. Lynne Ramsay

Another feel-good summer romance from Lynne Ramsay /s

First of all, Jennifer Lawrence is fucking swinging for the fences here. She gives an incredibly vulnerable and sometimes literally naked performance - emotionally and physically exposed in ways that feel genuinely risky. If the Oscars had an award for milkiest performance, she’d win hands down.

Reading reviews from women and mothers, I know this movie is about postpartum depression - experiencing insanity from her vantage point while her useless husband tries and fails to understand her. Ramsay keeps everything abstract, held at a distance. We’re seeing the impression of what postpartum feels like, an abstraction of a husband, a wife, a baby. I never felt like I was watching two real people going through this experience together. It’s impressionistic rather than intimate. Beautifully shot and well acted throughout, but deliberately alienating.

Here’s the thing though - I watched this one week out from a breakup. Our song was literally “In Spite of Ourselves” by John Prine. And I feel like the last six months of that relationship looked a lot like this movie.

I know Robert Pattinson is the wrong person to relate to here. I related to him anyway. I was trying to hold things together while my partner was losing their mind, experiencing a reality completely detached from mine. Trying to validate it. Trying to keep life moving forward. Trying to stay present while the other person actively burned it down.

Yeah. Hard watch for me right now.

Insanely weird flick. God damn it, Lynne Ramsay.

Also on [Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/joekarlsson/film/die-my-love/)

## Works on My Machine

Get the next post by email. My newsletter covers homelab builds, AI tools and open source, and it goes out when I have something to say.

It's free, and you can unsubscribe anytime. You'll get an email to confirm first.

![Joe Karlsson at his desk, chin on hand, with a microphone in front of him](https://www.joekarlsson.com/images/about/collage/studio.webp)

Joe  
Karlsson

I write about my homelab, AI tools, databases, and the weird stuff I build on the side.

[More about me →](https://www.joekarlsson.com/about/)

[Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/joekarlsson.com) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekarlsson/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/JoeKarlsson)