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Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love debuted in competition at Cannes on May 17, 2025, depicting a new mother’s descent into postpartum psychosis through Jennifer Lawrence’s raw performance. Lawrence, drawing on her own experiences as a mother of two, described the role as “heartbreaking” and “isolating,” underscoring the film’s unflinching portrayal of maternal mental health.

Early reactions ranged from standing ovations to critiques of narrative coherence, while industry observers noted Ramsay’s signature visual style and the film’s $24 million Mubi distribution deal as markers of its high stakes. International reviews—spanning Vogue’s mixed appraisal to Italian criticism praising its “feroce sinfonia” of motherhood—highlight the polarizing impact of Ramsay’s stark approach. Below is a structured account of the film’s background, festival reception, thematic resonance and wider implications.

Die, My Love premiered May 17 in Cannes’ main competition, marking Lynne Ramsay’s return with a psychological drama...

Die My Love, the latest feature from Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, was one of the hottest titles heading into this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and the film’s stock has only grown following a headline-grabbing $24 million acquisition by Mubi.

The film has been divisive on the ground in Cannes and is still a hot talking point up and down the Croisette. But did anyone who watched the film in the Lumiere on Friday actually understand it? Ramsay, a Cannes Film Festival vet, is skeptical.

Related: ‘Die My Love’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence Shines In Lynne Ramsay’s Brutal But Beautiful Portrait Of A Woman On The Edge – Cannes Film Festival

“This whole postpartum thing is just bullshit,” Ramsay said Monday afternoon of the discourse surrounding her movie during a fireside chat with veteran film journalist and critic Elvis Mitchell here in Cannes. “It’s not about that. It’s about a relationship breaking down,...

Near the climax of Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, two assassins––one well-dressed but dying, the other ragged but definitely alive––laid together on a kitchen floor, their hands lightly touching as Charlene’s “Never Been to Me” drifted in from a nearby radio, the lyrics barely escaping the wounded man’s mouth. That shock of counterpoint elevated what was, until then, a clinically well-executed revenge picture into something approaching the sublime. Ramsay plays that card again with less-convincing results in her long-awaited follow-up Die My Love, a visceral, coiled film about a woman in the throws of a mental breakdown. As ever, Ramsay’s soundtrack choices are equal-parts fun and unpredictable, not least David Bowie’s “Kooks” on a car radio or the director herself warbling an acoustic cover of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” over the closing credits––fitting choice for a work of toxic...

Exclusive: Mubi has won out in a multi-distributor tug of war for Jennifer Lawrence’s Cannes Competition film Die My Love, we understand. The voracious buyer is taking domestic and multiple international rights.

The deal is for $24 million, with full domestic theatrical commitment on 1,500 screens for 45 days, we hear. The territories were: North America, Latin America, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Turkey, India, Australia and New Zealand. It’s the first major deal on the ground for a film playing at Cannes and by far Mubi’s biggest acquisition ever.

Lawrence and Robert Pattinson took to the Cannes red carpet Saturday night for the world premiere of the drama from director Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here). This is a big one for Mubi and its chief Jason Ropell, coming after its breakout work last Oscar season on The Substance. We hear the bidding on this one was fevered,...

Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t just bounce back, she ricochets. From Oscar glory to meme queen to a few cinematic faceplants, J-Law’s career has been as unpredictable as her red carpet interviews. Remember when she was the indie darling of Winter’s Bone? Then came The Hunger Games, and suddenly she was Hollywood’s favorite everywoman with a bow and arrow. But post-Joy, her filmography got a bit murky. For a while, it felt like she was everywhere and nowhere at once, either saving space shuttles or showing up in movies we wish we could forget.

But Die, My Love might be her comeback’s comeback. Co-starring Robert Pattinson, the film adapts Ariana Harwicz’s visceral novel about motherhood, madness, and identity. Lawrence plays a woman spiraling on the edge of sanity, and honestly, it’s the meaty, unhinged role we’ve been waiting for. Awards season, consider this your official warning.

Lynne Ramsay has never shown much interest in making films that are easy to digest, her hard-edged psychological dramas refusing to offer comfort or provide tidy answers for the messy questions arising out of her characters’ upended lives. The uncompromising Scottish director has not gone soft in her jagged fifth feature, Die My Love. Giving a no-holds-barred performance that careens between disturbed reality and disturbing fantasy, blurring any dividing lines that separate them, Jennifer Lawrence plays a woman transplanted to the wide-open spaces of rural America, where marriage, motherhood and domesticity close in on her, chipping away at her sanity.

While screenwriters Enda Walsh, Ramsay and Alice Burch relocate Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz’s Lynchian 2012 debut novel from the French countryside, they stay true to its piercing focus on a woman battling her demons in a state of increasingly feverish isolation — whether she’s alone or in a room full of people.

Thanksgiving came early at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

While hitting the red carpet for the premiere of the Lynne Ramsay-directed film Die, My Love, a person appeared in a bird suit, leaving the crowd very confused about the correlation. The bird posed for photos next to Raphaël Quenard.

However, it’s worth noting that the bird costume could have ended up at the wrong premiere. Another movie, Dangerous Animals, took place a couple of blocks away and about 15 minutes before Die, My Love‘s carpet began. And even though the film is about sharks, not turkeys, the film’s title is fair to cause some confusion.

The wild fashion choice came after the festival announced earlier this week that there is a ban this year for no nudity and “voluminous” outfits. “For decency reasons, nudity is prohibited on the red carpet, as well as in any other area of the festival.

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson took to the Cannes red carpet this evening for the world premiere of new film Die My Love, directed by Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here).

The Competition movie is based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz and also stars Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.

Set in rural America, the film is a portrait of a married woman’s mental disintegration as post-natal depression consumes and obliterates her. Pattinson plays her husband, and Stanfield her lover.

In Deadline’s review, Damon Wise was impressed by Ramsay’s “mesmerizing film,” describing it as a “brutal but beautiful story.” As for many critics, Lawrence proved the star of the show. “America knows very well how good Jennifer Lawrence can be,” Wise wrote, “and this could well mean a fifth Oscar nomination if it lands in savvy hands.” But Ramsay also comes in for particular...

Die, My Love, one of the most hotly anticipated sales titles in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, had its world premiere at the Grand Théâtre Lumière on Saturday night, and garnered a six-minute standing ovation.

The film, an adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 novel of the same name — with the action relocated from France to Montana — was co-written and directed by art-house darling Lynne Ramsay and was co-produced by and stars Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence in her most ambitious performance in years.

In the genre-blending two-hour film, Lawrence plays a new mother who develops postpartum depression and begins going in and out of psychosis. Robert Pattinson plays her husband; Oscar winner Sissy Spacek and Oscar nominee Nick Nolte play his parents; and Oscar nominee Lakeith Stanfield also stars.

It all began when Lawrence sent the book to Ramsay, hoping for a collaboration, back in 2022. Ramsay signed on and wrote...

One of the starrier titles to hit the Croisette this week, Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love just had its debut at the Palais, earning a nine-minute ovation.

Led by Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, the Competition entry is based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz and also stars Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.

Jennifer Lawrence and co bask in 9-minutes worth of applause at ‘Die, My Love’ premiere #Cannes2025 pic.twitter.com/1FBMEa2kwG

— Deadline (@Deadline) May 17, 2025

Set in rural America, Die My Love is the portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness. Pattinson plays her husband, and Stanfield her lover.

Known for her Cannes drama Ratcatcher, as well as films like We Need to Talk About Kevin and Morvern Callar, Ramsay’s last movie, thriller You Were Never Really Here, starred Joaquin Phoenix and won her the Cannes Best Screenplay award in 2017.

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Lawrence excels as a woman whose bipolar disorder is exacerbated by husband Robert Pattinson’s infidelity, with super-strength direction from Lynne Ramsay

Lynne Ramsay brings the Gothic-realist steam heat, some violent shocks and deafening music slams to this movie, adapted by her with co-writers Alice Birch and Enda Walsh from the 2012 novel by Ariana Harwicz. It’s a ferociously intense study of a lonely, passionate woman and her descent into bipolar disorder as she is left alone all day with a new baby in a rambling Montana house originally belonging to her husband’s uncle, who took his own life in a gruesome way that we are not permitted to discover until some way into the movie.

Die, My Love is another film to remind you that Ramsay believes you should make movies the way Vs Naipaul believed you should write books: from a position of strength. There is, simply,...

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Jennifer Lawrence doing any of the debasing things she does in Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love,” like crawling on all fours through a field of grass, a kitchen knife in hand as she closes in on her character Grace’s newborn baby, or masturbating gloomily in a state of postpartum doom while her husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson) finishes cooking dinner downstairs, a self-induced orgasm timed to the spring of a toaster below.

Grace is just trying to be a good wife, a good mother, but she’s failing spectacularly at it in Ramsay’s alternately absorbing, exhausting tone poem of post-birth grief turned into psychosexual frenzy. Lawrence — whose fearless skill in conjuring women gone perilously over the verge and unhinged from top to toe while trying to play house was already established in Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” — gives the kind of...

There is no one who can cast a spell quite like Lynne Ramsay. Be it in a portrait of a mother reeling from the fact that her son committed a violent act or a study of the world’s loneliest mercenary who gets caught up in a conspiracy, it’s less about the “what” of the story than the manner in which she tells it. Her latest, the confined “Die, My Love’ starring Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence as a loving couple whose world begins to rapidly unravel, is no different. A film that falls again under the banner of “domestic horror” like “We Need to Talk About Kevin, “Die, My Love” is about seeing the way a small crack in the psyche can splinter outwards until everything shatters. While not always as measured as her past work and often a little rough around the edges on a technical level,...

On the eve of a Cannes Film Festival world premiere, it would be understandable, and so easily forgiven, if you encountered the cast, filmmaker and creative collaborators behind a competition entry and found them to be nervous, on edge or maybe a little jittery. Not Lynne Ramsay and her team from Die, My Love.

The emotions radiating on Friday at sunset from the beloved Cannes auteur, her roster of producers and stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Lakeith Stanfield and Sissy Spacek are best described as calm, cool and confident on what proved to be one of those picture perfect evenings on the French Riviera. Even a light mist vanished in time for cocktail hour atop La Terrasse by Albane at the J.W. Marriott during an exclusive filmmaker dinner in honor of Die, My Love sponsored by Longines and presented by The Hollywood Reporter.

Die, My Love? Not so fast.

The Cannes Film Festival is nearly here and while it’s easy to get swept up in the glitz and glamor and very big yachts, there’s another, equally important side to the festival as a marketplace for films from all over the world seeking distribution.

And there are some very big movies at this year’s festival which don’t have distribution, either domestically or internationally, that are very much worth keeping an eye on. They could be some of the festival’s biggest splashes.

“Die My Love” (Courtesy Cannes Film Festival) Die, My Love (Lynne Ramsay)

Scottish director Lynne Ramsay is one of the most exciting filmmakers working today and the fact that she has only made five features total, beginning with her outstanding debut feature “Ratcatcher” (back in 1999), turning the release of each new film into a verifiable event. “Die, My Love,” her first since 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here,...

Cillian Murphy may have garnered global applause for his powerful portrayals in Peaky Blinders and Oppenheimer, but this lesser-known role arguably stands as his most emotionally distressing and horrifying performance. His role as Darren in Disco Pigs (2001) is still vastly underappreciated and hidden away from the mainstream eye.

Adapted from a stage play by Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs is a brutally intricate look at the amplifying intensity of codependency in friendship, fixation, and emotional ruin. Murphy’s portrayal of a teenager at the edge of emotional collapse is chillingly good- raw and immersive.

This movie not only marked the start of his career but also portrayed his potential as an iconic actor. Despite being available on streaming, the film is under-acknowledged. But for audiences who appreciate real and bold emotional narratives, Disco Pigs remains a hidden gem that deserves a spotlight of its own.

His role in Disco Pigs still...

The British Film Institute has announced the eight feature films selected for this year’s “Great 8” initiative at the Cannes Marché du Film, featuring a new generation of UK directors making their first or second films. The initiative, now in its eighth year, pairs rising talent with international buyers and programmers through curated screenings and digital showcases.

One of the high-profile selections is Animol, the debut feature from Top Boy actor Ashley Walters. Written by Nick Love and produced by Walters alongside Sky, Film4, the BFI, and Joi Productions, the film stars Tut Nyuot and Stephen Graham. It follows 15-year-old Troy, who is incarcerated for a murder he didn’t commit. Inside a notorious Young Offenders’ Institution, he forms a bond with another inmate, Krystiyan, as the pressure of survival escalates. Walters, known for his music career with So Solid Crew and his breakout role in Bullet Boy, brings his...

The BFI has revealed the lineup of titles it will take to the upcoming Cannes Market as part of its Great 8 initiative for first and second-time filmmakers.

The list of features includes Animol, the debut feature from Top Boy actor Ashley Walters, and Madfabulous from filmmaker Celyn Jones. The BFI will present the features to international buyers in Cannes. The full list of titles are:

Animol – director Ashley Walters, writer Nick Love Ish – director Imran Perretta, writers Imran Perretta, Enda Walsh Learning to Breathe Under Water – director Rebekah Fortune, writer Richard Brabin Madfabulous – director Celyn Jones, writer Lisa Baker Mission – director/writer Paul Wright On the Sea – director/writer Helen Walsh Retreat – director/writer Ted Evans The Son and the Sea – director Stroma Cairns, writers Imogen West, Stroma Cairns

Now in its eighth year, the 2025 Great 8 showcase is funded and produced by the BFI and the British Council. As part of the scheme,...

Ashley Walters’ feature directorial debut Animol and Celyn Jones’ second feature, Madfabulous, are among the eight projects taking part in the 2025 Cannes Great 8 online showcase of UK feature films from first-and second-time UK filmmakers.

Animol is written by Nick Love, with Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor among the producers. It is a BFI, Film4 and Sky-backed coming-of-age story that takes place within the confines of a young offenders’ institution. Stephen Graham, with whom Walters’ co-starred in Netflix seriesAdolescence,is among the cast.

Madfabulous is Jones’ second film followingThe Almond And The Seahorse.Set in the 19th century, it isinspired by the flamboyant life...

The British Council and British Film Institute have unveiled the crop of films that will make up its annual Great 8 lineup of projects to be showcased in Cannes.

The features — from either first-time or early career filmmakers — will be introduced and screened to buyers and festival programmers in Cannes, where all eight will be available to distributors at the market.

This year marks the eighth year of the Great 8 initiative, funded and produced by the BFI and British Council with thanks to BBC Film and Film 4. Previous films to have been selected include Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” Rungano Nyoni’s “I Am Not A Witch” and Rose Glass’s “Saint Maud.”

“The 8th edition of Great 8 shows once again that UK film is in rude health with an upcoming slate that we can be proud of,” said Briony Hanson, the British Council’s Director of Film. “Again, this shows off...

As has become annual tradition, the British Film Institute (BFI) has unveiled its 2025 crop of “Great 8” movies, eight features from the “most exciting first-time and early career filmmakers” that it will showcase to international distributors and festival programmers in the run-up to and during the Marché du Film market taking place during the Cannes Film Festival.

They include a movie directed by actor and creative Ashley Walters (Netflix hit Adolescence, Top Boy, Missing You) with Stephen Graham, a drama thriller starring George MacKay and Rosy McEwen, a drama featuring Rory Kinnear and Maria Bakalova, a thriller set in an isolated deaf community, and a Welsh alternative period drama with Rupert Everett.

“Now in its eighth year, the 2025 Great 8 showcase is funded and produced by the BFI and the British Council, with thanks to BBC Film and Film4,” the BFI said. “In preparation for the Marché, unseen footage from all of...

Sometimes, the hardest part of movie night is picking the movie. We’ve got streaming top dogs practically throwing titles in our direction, and yet, we end up scrolling endlessly like it’s our part-time job.

Of course, there’s a time and place for a guilty pleasure, but if you’re in the mood for something with a bit more meat on its bones, consider this your guide to escaping the bland.

These 20 films deliver a little bit of everything – drama, sci-fi, (a bit of both in a love story?), and some good old existential crisis for the soul.

20. Melancholia (2011)

As a rogue planet drifts toward Earth from space, two sisters try to deal with the end of the world – one sinking into a state of numb despair, the other faltering under the weight of fear.

The second chapter in Lars von Trier’s Depression Trilogy, Melancholia, opens with...

Patrick Wachsberger’s new sales venture 193 has bulked up its Cannes sales slate with international rights to Lynne Ramsay’s Competition selection Die, My Love starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

Lawrence plays a passionate woman in a rural outpost who struggles with psychosis. The cast includes Lakeith Stanfield, Sissey Spacek, and Nick Nolte.

Ramsay co-wrote the screenplay with Enda Walsh, adapted from the book by Argentinian novelist Ariana Harwicz, which takes place in rural France where a woman has an affair and is tormented by marriage, motherhood, and loneliness.

Lawrence and her business partner Justine Ciarrocchi produced through Excellent Cadaver,...

Exclusive: Patrick Wachsberger’s new international sales outfit 193 has boarded buzzy Cannes Competition title Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

Lynne Ramsay’s film (You Were Never Really Here), based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz, also stars Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte. Lbi’s Rick Yorn is handling domestic sales.

Set in rural America, Die, My Love is described as the portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness. Pattinson plays her husband, and Stanfield her lover.

Ramsay directed from her script written with Enda Walsh and Alice Burch. Producers include Justine Ciarrocchi and Lawrence on behalf of Excellent Cadaver, as well as Martin Scorsese, Andrea Calderwood, and Black Label Media’s Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill. The latter served as financier.

Former Lionsgate and Summit exec Wachsberger launched production and sales banner 193 earlier this year as a Jv with Legendary Entertainment.

Jennifer Lawrence‘s upcoming movie Die, My Love is headed to Cannes!

The 34-year-old actress stars in and produces the upcoming thriller comedy, which is an adaptation of the Ariana Harwicz novel of the same name.

It was just announced that the movie will be one of the titles that will be in contention at the upcoming 2025 Cannes Film Festival, which starts on May 13th.

In addition, a new still image of Jennifer in character was released.

Keep reading to find out more…

The film is set in rural America and is “a portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness.”

Also starring in the feature, which was first announced in July 2024, include Robert Pattinson, Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.

Lynne Ramsay serves as director and co-wrote the script with Enda Walsh and Alice Birch.

Jennifer is expected to attend the Cannes Film Festival to premiere the movie,...

As is tradition, the Cannes Film Festival has announced late-breaking additions to its 2025 festival lineup, with new films coming from Lynne Ramsay, and Saeed Roustayi.

The 78th edition will now include Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, in the competition. All the Scottish director’s previous films have premiered at Cannes; the dark martial comedy/horror is her first film since 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here” won the Cannes Best Screenplay prize. Here, Jennifer Lawrence plays a wife unraveling in the country, and married to Pattinson’s character. Lakeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek also star in this adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel. Ramsay wrote the script with Enda Walsh and Alice Birch.

The film made it into Cannes just in time as hoped, and this means we’ll be seeing Lawrence and Pattinson standing in front of glittering flash bulbs on the Palais red carpet.

UK director Clio Barnard’sI See Buildings Fall Like Lightening, has started filming in the UK, with a cast of former Screen Stars of Tomorrow from the UK and Ireland led by Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew.

The film is being produced by Tracy O’Riordan for the UK’s Moonspun Films with funding fromBBC Film, which developed the film, and the BFI,in association with Curzon Film, which will distribute in the UK and Ireland.

Charades is handling international sales.

Further backing comes fromAli Jazayeri and Keith Kehoe’sUS-based independent film financier Tpc.

I...

UK director Clio Barnard’sI See Buildings Fall Like Lightening, has started filming in the UK, with a cast of former Screen Stars of Tomorrow from the UK and Ireland led by Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew.

The film is being produced by Tracy O’Riordan for the UK’s Moonspun Films with funding fromBBC Film, which developed the film, and the BFI,in association with Curzon Film, which will distribute in the UK and Ireland.

Charades is handling international sales.

Further backing comes fromAli Jazayeri and Keith Kehoe’sUS-based independent film financier Tpc.

I...

Clio Barnard, the BAFTA-nominated writer/director behind acclaimed British indie films such as “The Selfish Giant,” “Dark River” and “Ali & Ava,” has set a buzzy ensemble cast for her next feature.

“I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning,” based on the novel of the same name by Keiran Goddard (“Hourglass), will star Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew.

The cast also includes Millie Brady, Lucie Shorthouse and James Eeles.

Tony-winning Irish playwright, screenwriter and director Enda Walsh penned the screenplay for the film, which has now commenced principal photography on location in the U.K.

As per the synopsis, “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning” follows “Five friends. Five lives. Countless hopes.”

Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up together. They played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of everything they’d do with their lives. Now they’re thirty and those dreams haven...

Robert Pattinson definitely did not want to freestyle-dance for Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love.”

Pattinson told GQ in a video (below) alongside “Mickey 17” writer/director Bong Joon Ho that he almost had a “mental breakdown” amid filming a dance sequence with his co-star Jennifer Lawrence. Pattinson pleaded with Ramsay to have the scene be removed from the script, or be choreographed instead.

“I did this movie with Lynne Ramsay, and she’s a really good dancer. And Jennifer Lawrence is a really good dancer. They just find it so easy. They’re like, ‘Just dance, it’s just music playing, just dance,'” Pattinson said. “I was like, ‘I’m going to have a mental breakdown when this happens. We need to either choreograph it or cut it.’ And they’re like, ‘No, just dance, stop being all freak.’ It came to the day, and I was sweating so much,...

Cillian Murphy has been named Best Lead Actor in the film category of the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) for the second year running.

Following his win last year for Oppenheimer (which went on to bag him the Oscar), Murphy won for his role in the film Small Things Like These.

The film, an adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella, also won Best Film.

Complete Winners List Below

An Irish-language film about Belfast rap group Kneecap was nominated in 17 award categories. The film’s director Rich Peppiatt won best director in the film category, and it was also recognised in casting and costume design.

At the ceremony in Dublin, Ireland, Friday evening, Saoirse Ronan was a double winner, taking home Best Lead Actress for The Outrun and Best Supporting Actress for The Blitz.

Ralph Fiennes and Demi Moore were winners in the international acting categories for Conclave and The Substance respectively.

Small Things Like These, an Irish drama starring Cillian Murphy as a coal merchant and father haunted by secret abuses in a local convent sanctioned by the Catholic Church, beat out Kneecap, the hip-hop comedy featuring Michael Fassbender, to win the best film honor at the Irish Film & Television Awards 2025 during a ceremony held in Dublin on Friday. Saoirse Ronan left with two awards (the lead actress honor for her role in The Outrun and the supporting actress trophy for Blitz). Murphy won the best actor IFTA for his work in Small Things Like These. Demi Moore (The Substance) and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) were honored in the international acting categories, and Colin Farrell (The Penguin) and Sharon Horgan (for writing Bad Sisters) earned TV statuettes.

Rich Peppiatt received the best director IFTA for Kneecap, which follows the West Belfast hip-hop trio of the same name on their mission to save their mother tongue.

While many films have conjured terrifying physical manifestations of grief, one that set a notably high bar for hand-crafted horror exploring that fecund strand was Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook. The specter of that brutally effective 2014 shocker proves inescapable for writer-director Dylan Southern in The Thing With Feathers, right down to a malevolent figure haunting the main characters that looks like something out of Edward Gorey. The main salvation is the staggering commitment of Benedict Cumberbatch, hurling himself into the role of a bereaved husband in a performance touched by madness that holds nothing back. His wounds are gashes continually being reopened.

The source material is Max Porter’s prize-winning 2015 novella Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which yielded a solo stage piece three years later seen on both sides of the Atlantic, adapted and directed by Irish playwright Enda Walsh and starring a protean Cillian Murphy. The book is...

Kneecap is leading the charge at this year’s Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards, with 17 nominations across 12 categories.

Rich Peppiatt’s feature about the eponymous Irish-language Belfast hip hop act is on an awards season roll, having led the winners at the Bifas back in December with seven awards, as well as having been shortlisted at the Oscars in the international feature category, and being longlisted in seven categories at the Baftas (with nominations announced tomorrow).

Scroll down for the full list of film nominations

Tim Mielants’ Small Things Like These, an Ireland-Belgium co-production that opened the Berlin film festival last year,...

“Kneecap” — the Irish-language music biopic that became one of the buzziest indie films of 2024 and is now tipped for both Oscar and BAFTA recognition — has, perhaps unsurprisingly, emerged far ahead of the pack of nominees for the 2025 Irish Film & TV Academy (IFTA) awards.

Rich Peppiatt’s raucous comedy, about (and starring) the Belfast rap trio of the same name, has landed an astonishing 17 nominations for the awards, including best film, director, three of the six slots for lead actor, three of the six for supporting actress and one for Michael Fassbender in the supporting actor category.

“Small Things Like These,” the considerably quieter Irish drama fronted (and produced) by Cillian Murphy has nine nominations, including lead actor for Murphy, who won the award last year for “Oppenheimer.”

Having been co-produced by Irish company Tailored Films, Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” is also in the mix, with four nominations.

Nominations are out for the 2025 Irish Film & Television Awards with the Cillian Murphy drama Small Things Like These and the music comedy Kneecap among the tipped films. Scroll down for the full list of nominees.

Small Things Like These has nods in Best Screenplay, Lead Actor for Murphy, and Best Film. Other Best Film nominees include Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice, King Frankie, and Kneecap.

Kneecap has a strong showing across the noms, with nods in Best Director for Rich Peppiatt and all three of the film’s leads pop up in Best Actor. Paul Mescal also received a Best Actor nomination for his role in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II.

On the TV side, Sharon Horgan’s Bad Sisters is nominated for Best Drama while the Eddie Redmayne thriller The Day of the Jackal has multiple noms, including Best Director for a Drama Series.

The Irish Film & Television Academy...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Small Things Like These, Cillian Murphy’s first film after winning the Oscar for his starring role in Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture-winning Oppenheimer.

Enda Walsh, the Tony Award-winning Irish playwright and director, adapted the script for the film from Claire Keegan’s 2021 Booker Prize-nominated novel, which was selected as a final Oprah’s Book Club Pick in 2024. The book itself might seem short at 128 pages, but the story is rich within the context of the silent complicity of Ireland in the 1980s.

The film, directed by Tim Mielants, opened in the U.S. on November 8 after it world premiered earlier in the year as the opening-night film at the Berlin Film Festival. Emily Watson, who plays a formidable nun, won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Actress at the festival. Eileen Walsh,...

Dick Van Dyke is leaving people in awe by appearing in Coldplay’s new video, “All My Love,” in which the 98 year old shows that he’s still got a spring in his step by dancing in the music video. The song is interspersed with interview snippets, with the actor offering the words of wisdom that we have come to love from Dick Van Dyke. In one scene, he states, “I’m acutely aware that I could go any day now, but I don’t know why it doesn’t concern me. I’m not afraid of it. I have that feeling – totally against anything intellectual – that I’m going to be alright.” One of Dyke’s most beloved family films, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, is now set to have a reimagining over at Prime Video. Deadline reports that the new incarnation has now tapped Matthew Warchus to direct. Warchus...

Amazon and Eon are bringing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang back to the screen, and Matthew Warchus has signed up to direct the movie.

Eon Productions might be taking its time over wherever the James Bond saga is going next, but it’s got a different Ian Fleming-linked project up and running with Amazon MGM. Seems to be coming together a bit quicker, too.

As had been reported over the last week or so, a reimagined take on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is now heading towards the start line. Enda Walsh – who wrote Small Things Like These – is writing the screenplay for the new movie, and Ian Fleming’s novel will be the basis of the script.

We now learn too that things are sparking into life at speed. Matthew Warchus has signed on the dotted line to direct the movie, his first since Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical a couple of years back.

The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake has found its director. The 1968 musical fantasy movie starring Dick Van Dyke is among the iconic actor's most beloved movies. A remake was previously confirmed to be in development at Amazon MGM Studios, with James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson's Eon Productions attached to the project. The original movie was produced by Broccoli's father, Albert R. Broccoli.

Variety has now confirmed that Matilda the Musical's Matthew Warchus will direct Amazon's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake. In addition to Matilda the Musical, Warchus directed the 2014 movie Pride starring Bill Nighy, and has directed numerous musicals and plays, including God of Carnage, for which he won a Tony Award. The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake script is being written by the screenwriter and Tony Award-winning playwright Enda Walsh.

What This Means For The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Remake Development Is Moving Quickly...

The forthcoming remake of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” prepares to take flight with director Matthew Warchus boarding the production.

Tony and Olivier award winner Warchus will direct the film, based on the classic children’s story about a magical flying car, from a script by Tony winner Enda Walsh (“Small Things Like These”).

The new movie, which Eon Productions and Amazon MGM Studios announced earlier this month, is in the early stages of development. The project builds on the partnership between the studio and the “James Bond” producers amid their search for the new MI6 agent following Daniel Craig’s retirement from the role, following 2021’s “No Time to Die.”

Originally written by Bond creator Ian Fleming as a bedtime story for his son Casper, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” was adapted for the big screen in 1968. Dick Van Dyke starred in the kid-friendly musical fantasy film, directed by Ken Hughes,...

Matthew Warchus has come aboard to direct the new, reimagined film adaptation of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” for Eon Productions and Amazon MGM, the companies announced on Thursday.

The much-loved children’s story about a magical flying car will be adapted for the screen by writer Enda Walsh (“Small Things Like These”).

The film is in early stages of development and builds on Eon and Amazon MGM’s partnership.

The story centers on an eccentric inventor in pre-war England who also happens to be a widowed father of two children. He restores an old racing car that the children name Chitty Chitty Bang Bang due to the sounds it makes, and they discover the car has magical abilities.

Originally written by Ian Fleming as a bedtime story for his son Casper, the book was adapted into a screenplay by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes with Richard Maibaum. In 1968, the film...

Matthew Warchus (Matilda: The Musical) is set to direct the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reimagining in the works from Amazon MGM Studios and Eon Productions, Amazon said Thursday.

Warchus will work from a script by Enda Walsh (Small Things Like These). The film, which Deadline told you about first, is in early stages of development and builds on Eon and Amazon MGM’s partnership on the James Bond franchise.

Originally conceived by Bond author Ian Fleming as a bedtime story for his son Casper, his 1964 novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was previously adapted into a 1967 film directed by Ken Hughes off a script by Roald Dahl, Hughes and Richard Maibaum. The story is a whimsical family adventure following inventor Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), his two children and Truly Scrumptious (Sally Anne Howes) — daughter of candy factory owner Lord Scrumptious (James Robertson Justice)— as they restore an old car, which...

Currently starring in Dune: Prophecy as the Mother Superior of the mysterious sisterhood that becomes the Bene Gesserit, Emily Watson earlier this year scooped the Silver Bear Best Supporting Performance award at the Berlin Film Festival for her role as a different sort of formidable Mother Superior in Irish drama Small Things Like These.

The Cillian Murphy-starrer is directed by Tim Mielants and based on Claire Keegan’s acclaimed eponymous novel which has been adapted by Enda Walsh. Watson plays Sister Mary, whose convent is concealing a Magdalene Laundry, businesses run jointly by the Church and the Irish state where unwed mothers were consigned to repent of their sins, do hard labor and ultimately deliver their babies for adoption.

Although Watson doesn’t have much screen time, her impact is spine-chilling. In her review for Deadline, Stephanie Bunbury wrote that Watson “brings an urgent sense of high stakes… she seems to vibrate with menace.

Cillian Murphy, an Academy Award-winning actor, brings a powerful story of moral awakening to the screen in “Small Things Like These,” a historical drama confronting one of Ireland’s most traumatic institutional legacies. Based on Claire Keegan’s 2021 novel, the film goes into the contentious Magdalene laundries of 1985, presenting a nuanced analysis of individual conscience during a challenging moment in Irish history.

Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a coal dealer in New Ross, Ireland, who becomes increasingly aware of the dark truths about a local convent-run institution. Subtle, repressed emotion characterizes the actor’s performance, which he regards as purposeful. “A lot of acting is about withholding,” Murphy says. “It’s about leaving space for the audience to interpret emotions nonverbally.”

The film is particularly relevant to Ireland’s complex socioeconomic history. Catholic orders ran the Magdalene laundries, which sheltered “fallen” women until 1996. Murphy, who was around 9 years old when the film was set,...

In recent months, we’ve learned that Silver Linings Playbook Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, The Batman star Robert Pattinson, and The Book of Clarence‘s Lakeith Stanfield have the lead roles in the thriller Die, My Love, which is coming our way from We Need to Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here director Lynne Ramsay. Now, Deadline and World of Reel have unveiled the first images from the film, and they give us a look at the characters played by Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. One of the images can be seen above, and the other two can be found at the bottom of this article.

Scripted by Ramsay and Enda Walsh, Die, My Love is said to be “set in a remote forgotten rural area,” with the story centering on a mother who struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis. The story is...

Lynne Ramsay, an award-winning director, is making a strong return to feature filmmaking with “Die, My Love. ” It is a psychological thriller that examines the tough sides of marriage, motherhood, and mental health.

Jennifer Lawrence plays a new mother who is dealing with bipolar disorder and postpartum depression, and she’s the star of the show. The movie, based on Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 book of the same name, moves the story from a French village to the vast Montana farmland, giving it a very American feel.

The movie has an impressive ensemble cast and is produced by the famous director Martin Scorsese. Lakeith Stanfield plays Lawrence’s boyfriend, and Robert Pattinson plays her husband. Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek, both of whom won Oscars, round out the supporting group.

Ramsay, known for telling honest stories in movies like “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” brings her usual passion to the job.

Jennifer Lawrence's new movie with Robert Pattinson, Die, My Love, has been revealed in three first-look images. Directed by Lynne Ramsay, who co-wrote the script with Enda Walsh based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz, the upcoming film follows the psychological unraveling of a woman living in rural America who becomes overwhelmed by the demands of marriage and motherhood. The movie stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in lead roles alongside Lakeith Stanfield, Oscar winner Sissy Spacek, and three-time Oscar nominee Nick Nolte.

Now, three first-look images from Die, My Love featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson have been revealed via The Film Stage. The first image shows a close-up of Lawrence's character drinking from a glass, followed by a second of her at a party with confetti falling around her. The third image shows Lawrence and Pattinson's characters, who are husband and wife, dancing in their farmhouse on the Montana countryside.

Up next from director Lynne Ramsay is the psychological thriller Die, My Love, and Deadline has shared the first look at star Jennifer Lawrence in the film.

Die, My Love adapts the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz; Ramsay co-wrote the script with Enda Walsh.

The rural American tale is “set in a remote, forgotten rural area; the story follows a mother who struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis.” It’s said to be “a portrait of a woman (Lawrence) engulfed by love and madness.“

Robert Pattinson plays her husband, and Lakeith Stanfield portrays her lover. Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte also star in the psychological thriller.

The book’s synopsis also gives a clearer picture of the emotional intensity. In the novel, “In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning...

Jennifer Lawrence returns to her darker roots for “Die, My Love,” Lynne Ramsay’s first film in seven years. Check out a first-look image above.

The thriller is based on Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 novel, which centers on a woman (Lawrence) ravaged at the crossroads between love and madness.

Robert Pattinson plays Lawrence’s onscreen husband, with Lakeith Stanfield cast as her lover. Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte also co-star.

Ramsay returns to directing for her first feature since 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here.” Ramsay previously teased “Die, My Love” during the 2023 Sarajevo Film Festival, emphasizing the movie’s divergences from the novel. In contrast, the book was about a woman in a secluded French village who grapples with extreme mental health problems after giving birth. Ramsay has taken liberties with source material before, with “You Were Never Really Here” adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella and “We Need to Talk About Kevin...