EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story contains spoilers for “Die My Love.”
Back in May, Lynne Ramsay debuted her latest film “Die My Love” at the Cannes Film Festival. Within days, she was telling critics they had her film all wrong.
The Scottish director’s adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s 2012 novel stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson as a couple tearing at each other in rural Montana while raising their six-month-old son. Journalists singled out Lawrence’s eye-catching performance as Grace, a spiraling writer, and dispensed various mental health diagnoses: she had postpartum depression, postnatal depression, psychosis or bipolar disorder. Ramsay called “the whole postpartum thing” “bulls***t.”
Six months later, she can’t believe she phrased it that way, but she stands by it.
“People love to sit and have their little pigeonhole, just to make it easy to say in a couple of words: ‘It’s about this,’” she told CNN in a recent interview. “And I don’t think (the film) is just about that. It’s about their marriage breaking down, her being isolated, her loneliness and her creativity drying up, the sex drying up, and everything kind o
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