Jennifer Lawrence gives everything to Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay’s new film is a striking adaptation of an intense story about a woman on the brink of collapse. The movie draws from Ariana Harwicz’s acclaimed 2012 debut novel Die, My Love, written by the Argentinian author who lives in France.
“How valuable they are depends on how highly we rank the expression of experience with which we can in no sense identify, and from which we can only turn with shock and sorrow.”
Philip Larkin on Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems
Harwicz’s novel shares that same raw emotion. Its unnamed narrator exposes a torrent of rage, disdain, and desire as she navigates a suffocating life. A foreigner in rural France, she is an unfulfilled writer forced into caring for her newborn. Her resentment grows — toward her husband, whom she finds sexually inadequate, and toward herself as her sanity frays.
She begins an affair with a married neighbor, admitting:
“A breath of irrationality had set fire to my existence.”
Although a stay in hospital briefly restores calm, she unravels again at her child’s second birthday party, shouting:
“I hope you all die, every last one of you… Just die, my love.”
The suggested diagnosis of postpartum psychosis feels insufficient. Even in the growing genre of stories confronting the darker edges of motherhood, Die, My Love stands out for its unflinching extremity and searing honesty.
Author’s Summary
Lynne Ramsay’s film transforms Harwicz’s shocking tale of repression and madness into a haunting reflection on identity, rage, and the limits of sanity.
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