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For the first time in her career, Lynne Ramsay plans to direct an actor she’s worked with before on another project. It just may surprise some who she’s decided to collaborate with once more.

“I’m making a vampire movie,” Ramsay said in a recent interview with The Los Angeles Times, adding, “It’s with Ezra Miller who was in ‘Kevin.’ He’s the main character. That’s in development.”

Despite being such a formidable figure in international cinema over the last 25 years, it may be shocking for some to discover that Lynne Ramsay has only made five feature films. She’s directed a number of short films as well, and it’s not as if she hasn’t wanted to make more, but it’s sometimes easier said than done.

“It’s not by design. It’s just life takes over,” she said. “I have a daughter,...

Lynne Ramsay, the director of films like We Need to Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here, knows that her films tend to be deeper than the conventional Hollywood movie. She also isn't afraid to call out those who misunderstand her work. Her latest film, the psychological thriller Die, My Love, is dividing audiences at the Cannes Film Festival, and early reviews have convinced Ramsay to speak her mind. She says that the film starring Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence is being greatly misinterpreted by critics.

Mubi has acquiredDie, My Love for $24 million at Cannes in one of the festival's most interesting deals so far. Their listing of the film already includes the following plot synopsis: "Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion,...

Indie distributor Mubi is said to have paid upwards of $20m for Lynne Ramsay’s drama Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

Following its premiere at Cannes over the weekend, director Lynne Ramsay’s intense-sounding drama Die, My Love has picked up strong reviews and, it turns out, one of the festival’s biggest deals so far. Various outlets, including The Hollywood Reporter, have shared the news that Mubi has signed an eight-figure contract to distribute Ramsay’s film in multiple territories; how much the deal is worth varies slightly, but most agree that the price tag is around the $24m mark.

Based on Ariana Harwicz’s novel, Die, My Love stars Jennifer Lawrence as a mother battling post-partum depression; Robert Pattinson plays the husband, while Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte and Lakeith Stansfield all co-star. Reviews have been positive so far, with Lawrence’s raw portrayal of...

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...

Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence's new film is off to a great start. The duo stars in the psychological drama Die, My Love.

The movie, which has Lynne Ramsay at the helm, just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17. The film received huge critical acclaim and has already reached a distribution deal. Per Deadline, Mubi won the rights to Lawrence and Pattinson's film Die, My Love in a multi-distributor war, with a $23 million deal.

The deal is in the range between $23 million to $24 million, with a full release in theaters on at least 1,500 screens for 45 days. Die, My Love marks the first major deal at Cannes and Mubi's biggest acquisition. Netflix and Apple were also reportedly in the mix.

Mubi has also acquired the rights for Oliver Hermanus’ The History of Sound, Kelly Reitchardt's The Mastermind, and Akinola Davies' My Father's Shadow, per Film Updates. The production...

The Cannes Film Festival is nearing the end of its first week and with it, we got a buzzy new Jennifer Lawrence/Robert Pattinson drama and a Richard Linklater-directed ode to French cinema.

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattison Hit the Red Carpet

“Die, My Love,” the long-awaited new film from Lynne Ramsay, premiered Saturday and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattison were on hand to welcome it to the world.

The stars, who had each anchored their own beloved YA franchise long ago, attended the premiere alongside their director (this is the Scottish director’s first feature since 2017’s brilliant “You Were Never Really Here”) with Sissy Spacek, Mariska Hargitay and someone dressed as a turkey – or maybe it was a condor? It’s a little unclear.

Cannes, France – May 17: A condor attends the “Die My Love” red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais...

Mubi has acquired the rights to Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” in the U.S. and multiple other territories in a deal totaling $24 million. The movie, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, world premiered at Cannes on Saturday evening to a six-minute standing ovation.

The acquisition marks the first major sale of this year’s Cannes. The territories include North America, Latin America, U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Turkey, India, Australia and New Zealand.

“Die My Love” is based on author Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 novel of the same name, which centers on a new mother who enters psychosis after developing postpartum depression. Ramsay’s adaptation of “Die, My Love” is set in rural America and revolves around Lawrence’s character, a woman who has just had a baby and is engulfed by love and madness, to which her husband (Pattinson) appears oblivious. It marks Ramsay...

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,...

As unflinching a film about postpartum as you’ll ever see, “Die, My Love,” the haunting new work from acclaimed filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, has marked a long-anticipated return for the director eight years after her last film, 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here.”

Premiering Saturday night in Cannes to largely rave reviews, it’s a film that centers on Jennifer Lawrence’s Grace as she finds herself trying to raise a child almost entirely alone in a remote Montana home, an experience the actress said is about her world “peeling away.” The film, Lawrence said at a Cannes press conference on Sunday morning, resonated on a personal level after she had a child herself.

“As a mother, it was really hard to separate what I would do as opposed to what she would do. It was just heartbreaking.” Lawrence said at the press conference alongside Ramsay and co-stars Robert Pattinson,...

Jennifer Lawrence gives one of her most all-consuming and risky performances as a writer crashing down badly from postpartum in the countryside in Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love.” The Cannes Competition premiere is an adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 novel, which Lawrence and her Excellent Cadaver production team sent to Ramsay a couple of years ago, hoping the “We Need to Talk About Kevin” filmmaker would want to direct it. The dark, intensely subjective drama is Ramsay’s first film since 2017 Cannes screenplay winner “You Were Never Really Here,” and it’s looking for a distributor.

“There’s not really anything like postpartum. It’s extremely isolating,” Lawrence said at Sunday’s Cannes press conference when asked about her character, Grace. “Lynne moves this couple into Montana. She doesn’t have a community. She doesn’t have her people, but the truth is, extreme anxiety and extreme depression [are] isolating no matter where you are.

When it came to actors revealing their tricks to playing the heavy-duty melodrama of a husband and wife on the edge, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson had nothing to hold back in their discussion of their portrayals in Die My Love.

Lynne Ramsay’s film stars Lawrence as Grace, a young mother battling severe post-natal mental illness, which takes a toll on her marriage to Jackson (Robert Pattinson), leading to his infidelity. Increasing the melodrama is the fact that they’ve moved from the city to Middle of Nowhere, California.

Die My Love reps the seventh time that Ramsay has been in Cannes, her pinnacle being 2017, when she took home Best Screenplay for the psychedelic Joaquin Phoenix mercenary thriller You Were Never Really Here.

At this morning’s Cannes presser for the film, Lawrence revealed she was around five months pregnant when she shot the role.

Jennifer Lawrence on her...

Jennifer Lawrence said having children has “changed her creatively” at the Cannes press conference forLynne Ramsay’s Competition entryDie, My Love.

Lawrence and co-star Robert Pattinson discussed the film in the context of their own parenthood.

“Having children changes everything, it changes your whole life, it’s brutal and incredible,” said Lawrence. “Not only do they go into every decision of if I’m working, where, when – I didn’t know that I could feel so much.

“My job has a lot to do with emotion,” continued Lawrence. “They’ve opened up the world to me. It’s almost like feeling like a blister,...

Jennifer Lawrence said being naked on the first day was the hardest part of shooting Lynne Ramsay’s Cannes Competition entry Die, My Love.

“I think I have an easy answer to this one,” said Lawrence at the film’s press conference, in response to a journalist asking which was the hardest day on set. “The day before our first day, Lynne showed Rob [Pattinson, co-star] and I a scene from If…. It was these actors, and they’re attacking each other like tigers.”

“We were like ‘Ok’,” said Lawrence. “And [Ramsay] said, ‘And you’ll do it naked, yeah?”

“That was the first day.

A Cannes Film Festival regular, British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has five features under her belt and all of them have shored up on the Croisette. Ratcatcher premiered in the Un Certain Regard section back in 1999, Morvern Callar was showcased in the Directors’ Fortnight section in 2002 and then it’s been competition from that point on with We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), 2017’s You Were Never Really Here (read ★★★★ review) and now Die, My Love.…...

Based on the reaction to Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, the first significant Oscar-caliber performance of the year has arrived thanks to Jennifer Lawrence.

“Cannes is a festival where Oscar narratives typically start to take shape, and while it’s far too early to make predictions, Lawrence has announced herself as an early frontrunner,” wrote The Daily Beast in an unbylined review (although critic Esther Zuckerman has filed several reviews for the outlet this week from France). “Die, My Love still has yet to find distribution, but it inevitably will get picked up with a big campaign in place. The second coming of Jennifer Lawrence is here and it’s astounding.”

In the headline for his review, Vanity Fair critic Richard Lawson called Lawrence “astonishing.”

“What keeps our attention during the film’s slightly sagging middle, and makes it such bracing viewing,...

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...

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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Jennifer Lawrence has electrified the Cannes Film Festival with the world premiere of “Die, My Love,” the latest directorial effort from the acclaimed Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. The movie earned a six-minute ovation following its world premiere. “Die, My Love” is in competition at Cannes and competing for the Palme d’Or.

As the audience applauded, Ramsay cut her own ovation short, struck with emotion.

“Wow. I’m so overwhelmed. Thanks to these amazing actors. I’ve got to get it together, I’ll see you in a minute,” she said, breaking into a run up the aisle and out of the Palais.

In the film, Lawrence and her co-star Robert Pattinson proved worthy adversaries, who bicker and screw their way into emotional oblivion in Ramsay’s tense portrait of a woman undone. The crowd at Cannes viscerally reacted to Lawrence’s self-inflicted violence — smashing her head into mirrors, jumping...

Die My Love, Lynne Ramsay’s fifth film, ends with a familiar song sung by an unfamiliar voice: The director herself delivers a stripped-down version of Joy Division’s 1980 hit “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Marital-breakdown songs are usually the stuff of country and western, but this stark post-punk anthem was written by Manchester’s Ian Curtis, who married at 19 in 1975 and was dead, by suicide, a month before his most famous song was released, 45 years ago, almost to the day (if you’re reading this during Cannes 2025). Ramsay’s mesmerizing film is as close as you might get to seeing Curtis’ song come to life, the brutal but beautiful story of a married woman’s mental disintegration as post-natal depression consumes and obliterates her.

The famous saying has it that hell is other people, but here, hell for other people is Grace (Jennifer Lawrence), a big-city author who has...

In one of the terrifyingly labored and overwrought scenes that make up Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love,” Grace (Jennifer Lawrence), who’s suffering from an acute case of mental trauma — the film would have you believe it’s postpartum depression, though you could make a good case that it’s not — has had enough of the noisy dog that her partner, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), brought home for no good reason. The two are living in rural Montana, in a home that Jackson inherited from his uncle, a house that definitely qualifies as a fixer-upper. These two just haven’t bothered to fix it up.

They have a baby, you see, a sweet little boy, and ever since he came into their lives everything has been falling apart. The dog literally never stops yapping (it’s the most annoying dog in history), so Grace, who has brought over a shotgun,...

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.

When Martin Scorsese’s book club read Argentinian author Ariana Harwicz’s novel Die, My Love, about a new mother living in the countryside who unravels when she develops post-partum depression, the director immediately envisioned a film version in which Jennifer Lawrence, with whom he was keen to work, would play the lead.

Itwas the summer of 2020 and Scorsese sent the novel to Lawrence’s New production outfit Excellent Cadaver that she runs with Justine Ciarrocchi.

“He was adamant no-one could pull off Grace like [Lawrence] could,” Ciarrocchi told Screen.

Five years later the film debuts tonight (May 17) in Cannes Competition,...

“Eddington,” Ari Aster’s Covid-era contemporary Western starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Pedro Pascal, earned a five-minute standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival premiere on Friday.

The film’s distinct comment on American political and societal discourse did not overwhelm some of the international set. High in the rafters of the Palais, at least 20 people trickled out over the course of the screening. When the credits seemed imminent, many up top scattered.

Aster was typically self-deprecating after the premiere, saying, “I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what you think. Sorry, I guess? Thank you, I guess?” He followed that by saying, “I feel very privileged to be here. This is a dream come true. Thank you so much for having me.”

According to its official synopsis, the A24 film is set in May 2020 and follows “a standoff between a small-town sheriff...

All About Netflix’s Hidden Gem With A 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score!(Photo Credit –Netflix)

Leave No Trace has quietly resurfaced, now streaming across Netflix in multiple regions and appearing on other platforms. Even though it’s not a noisy blockbuster, the film has earned something louder than hype: unanimous praise.

Rotten Tomatoes, the watchful critic barometer, rarely hands out perfect scores, but here’s where this quiet, haunting story stands out. It’s one of the most-reviewed films to hold a pristine 100% rating, and that doesn’t happen often.

Leave No Trace: Life In The Margins

The film follows a father, Will, and his teenage daughter, Tom, tucked away from society in the dense woods on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. Their life is quiet, self-sustaining, and seemingly untouched by the chaos beyond the trees, but the stillness cracks after a single misstep forces them into contact with a world they’ve long avoided.

Cannes Film Festival is known for its standing ovations and this year, we’re trying to predict how long they’ll last.

The Cannes Film Festival, perhaps the glitziest, most glamorous film festival of them all, is now in full swing. Celebrities and journalists alike have gathered on the French Riviera for 11 days of movie premieres and press conferences.

In the next few days, the internet will be full of reviews for the new films by Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Lynne Ramsay and even Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (here’s one!). We’re also going to be getting daily updates on the lengths of the standing ovations each film gets, a scoring methodology that’s Cannes’ own version of a Rotten Tomatoes score.

Most films presented at the festival will get a standing ovation and (some) headlines love to highlight the specific minutes the audience stayed standing up and clapping.

With the 2025 Cannes Film Festival kicking off on Tuesday, one key question is what movies not to miss on the Croisette.

From competition veterans like the Dardenne brothers, Kelly Reichardt and Joachim Trier to newly promoted auteurs like Ari Aster, Oliver Hermanus, Carla Simón and Oliver Laxe, THR’s chief film critic rounds up 10 essential premieres

Die, My Love

Lynne Ramsey first turned heads in Cannes with her stunning 1999 feature debut Ratcatcher, about a 12-year-old boy growing up in poverty in the Glasgow housing projects. The Scottish director returned to the Croisette three years later with Morvern Callar, graduating to the official competition with We Need to Talk About Kevin in 2011 and You Were Never Really Here in 2017. Admirers have had a long wait for Ramsey’s fifth feature, a thriller with a vein of comedy she describes as “dark and fucked-up,” starring Jennifer Lawrence as a new mother walloped by postpartum depression,...

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,...

It’s the most exciting time of the year for a cinephile: the Cannes Film Festival is set to kick off next week, running May 13th-25th. Ahead of festivities we’ve rounded up what we’re most looking forward to, and while we’re sure many surprises await, per every year, one will find twenty films that should be on your radar. Check out our picks below and be sure to subscribe to our daily newsletter for the latest updates from the festival.

Alpha (Julia Ducournau)

Winning the Palme d’Or for your previous film is a pretty high bar to clear for your next. It’s also among the best problems any filmmaker could have. Four years after Spike Lee’s jury handed the coveted prize to the first female filmmaker in Cannes history––and one of the most violent films to ever take home a Palme––maverick...

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.

Flashback to Cannes 2017 when Joaquin Phoenix (best actor) and Lynne Ramsay (best screenplay) for the thriller You Were Never Really Here Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival

Lynne Ramsay who was last in Cannes in 2017 with her thriller You Were Never Really Here featuring Joaquin Phoenix and recipient of the best screenplay award, returns to the official selection as a late entry with Die, My Love starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

Based on a first novel by Ariana Harwicz which Ramsay herself has adapted, it revolves around a woman (Lawrence) who, after the birth of a baby, has a torrent of conflicting emotions to which her husband (Pattinson) barely acknowledges.

Ramsay’s presence will mark the seventh female director in the official Competition, a record-breaking number for Cannes, suggest the Festival organisers. The film was only screened to the selectors after the official launch press conference was held

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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.

The Cannes Film Festival has added several titles to the official selection, including Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” a thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, as well as Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water” in Un Certain Regard and Ethan Coen’s “Honey Don’t!” in the midnights section.

Other additions to the official selection are Saeed Roustaee’s “Woman and Child” in competition; Anna Cazenave Cambet’s “Love Me Tender,” Simón Mesa Soto’s “Un Poeta” and Pedro Pinho’s “O Riso E A Faca (Le Rire et le Couteau”) in Un Certain Regard; “Kōji Fukada’s “Renai Saiban,” Hlynur Pálmason’s “Ástin Sem Eftir Er,” Lav Diaz’s “Magalhães” in premiere; and Vincent Maël Cardona’s “Le Roi Soleil” in midnights.

“Die, My Love” was screened for the Cannes committee after the festival’s official press conference on April 10, during which chief Thierry Fremaux unveiled the lineup.

Updated, 8:11 a.m.: Spike Lee has shared on Instagram that his latest film, “Highest 2 Lowest,” will premiere out of competition in Cannes, though the film was not included in the festival’s Thursday lineup announcement. IndieWire understands the festival was waiting to confirm Denzel Washington’s attendance, and indeed the star will be at Cannes.

Earlier: Predicting the Cannes Film Festival lineup is always a tricky feat. Some films you’d expect to see on the Croisette — and we expected many that didn’t make the cut Thursday morning — either aren’t ready or decided to go the way of the fall festivals.

Or worse, Thierry Frémaux and his team just didn’t go for them. The festival programmers looked at a record 2,909 feature submissions this year, spreading out selections across the main competition, Un Certain Regard, and the non-competitive sections. More official selection films will be announced,...

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,...

Before “Emilia Pérez” made history with 13 nominations at the 2025 Oscars — tying with “Gone with the Wind,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Oppenheimer” for the second-most nods of all time — the film’s producers have backed a slew of indie hits.

Now, the filmography from producers Pascal Caucheteux and Grégoire Sorlat and their banner Why Not Productions is getting its due on the big screen. IndieWire can announce that with support from Netflix, the top Why Not Productions features will return to theaters. That includes Gregg Araki’s iconic 1995 Nc-17 crime film “The Doom Generation,” Claire Denis’ “White Material,” and Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here.”

Araki will appear for a Q&a with “The Doom Generation” at the Egyptian on Thursday, February 6 following the 7:30 p.m. show.

Additional directors featured in the program include Ken Loach, Arnaud Desplechin, and Cristian Mungiu. The program also will have...

So 2024 isn’t quite in the rearview, as we still have awards season chores to get through, after all. But as the churn of ceremonies from the Golden Globes to the Oscars (March 2) remains underway in honoring the same handful of 2024 movies for the next two months, it’s refreshing to at least survey what’s new and upcoming in 2025.

In other words, the movies no one’s talking about yet but sure will be soon enough.

Inevitably, at least a few of IndieWire’s 50 most anticipated films of this year will end up in the same awards conversation this time next year. From 2024 festival holdovers to strike-halted or repeatedly rescheduled originals and buzzy franchise entries, these are the movies we’re most looking forward to this year.

Granted, we’ve already gotten started on the Best Films of 2025 we’ve already seen (and you can expect some...

Writer and executive producer Ed Solomon, whose extensive list of credits includes the “Men in Black” and “Bill & Ted” film series, has signed with London and L.A.-based management and production company 42.

Solomon’s upcoming projects include Steven Soderbergh’s “The Christophers,” set to star Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel and James Corden and about the estranged children of a once-famous artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death. Production is due to start in early 2025. Solomon is also developing “The Spot,” a psychological thriller which he created and is executive producing. Kate Winslet is attached to lead the A24 series, about a successful surgeon and her school teacher husband who suspect she might be responsible for a child’s hit-and-run death. It’s due to premiere in summer 2026 on Hulu.

Solomon is best known for writing...

While he’s been making a strong impression in films from the likes of John Woo and Nicolas Winding Refn for the last three decades, 2024 marks a major year for Alessandro Nivola. Earlier this year saw the release of Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat and, this Friday, Nivola can be seen in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist and Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door.

In The Brutalist, Nivola gives a formidable performance as Attila, immigrant cousin to Adrien Brody’s László Tóth and his sole connection to America. The backbone of the epic film’s first act, Attila provides an entry point into assimilation and the sacrifices and consolations one must shed in pursuit of the American Dream.

Ahead of the film’s release, Conor O’Donnell and I spoke with Nivola, who returned to The B-Side to discuss working with auteurs, conveying the process of assimilation, and the “total...

Joaquin Phoenix leads the Beau is Afraid cast in one of the wildest roles of his career, but he is also backed by an outstanding cast that pulls him through his surreal story. Written and directed by Ari Aster, the filmmaker who brought audiences Hereditary and Midsommar, Beau is Afraid follows Beau Wasserman (Phoenix), an anxious, fearful man who has a complicated relationship with his mother Mona. After her death, Beau goes on a journey of self-discovery and realization as he attempts to get home in time for her funeral.

Aster’s latest, and most challenging movie yet, isn’t exactly a horror in the same way its predecessors are, but there is still a sense of unease that permeates Beau is Afraid. The film Aster takes Beau down an intriguing, strange, and complex path filled with colorful and absurd characters. The ensemble alongside Phoenix includes acclaimed actors, some known primarily for comedic roles,...

Film Noir would become the ubiquitous term for critics in the mid-50s and 60s to describe the stylish crime dramas and capers of the 40s and 50s. The visual stylization of noir collides with post-war uncertainty and anxiety which would be reflected within the convolution of the storytelling itself. Post the 1950s, filmmakers worldwide would construct narratives that would homage to the essence of film noir and become more integrated within the umbrella of other genres. Those would be termed as neo-noirs.

The essence of noirs would essentially “corrupt” and push the essence of genres like sci-fi towards far cynical territory. These neo-noirs would become prevalent in the early 2000s, especially post 9/11, where homage to a style would be transmuted into an expression of the human condition. The topics range from trauma, loss, and identity struggles to a disconnection from the world they inhabit. At times, there is also an inclination to shirk responsibility,...

We Need To Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay is reportedly about to embark on another film: revenge thriller Stone Mattress.

With films like We Need To Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here on her impressive resume, there’s no doubt that Lynne Ramsay is a celebrated film director. Given her penchant for making short films too, Ramsay has never been what you’d call a prolific director of features: her last film was 2017’s You Were Never Really Here, and before that, 2011’s We Need To Talk About Kevin. According to a new report, though, Ramsay’s next project may be her second to go before cameras in a single calendar year.

Ramsay has already finished up production on Die, My Love, a film ‘about a woman driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.’ Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek all star.

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson are starring in Die, My Love together in 2025, which will mark the first time the two actors share the screen. Lawrence and Pattinson are two of the most acclaimed actors of the last decade and are usually quite selective with their film roles. Lawrence has starred in celebrated films such as Silver Linings Playbook and Causeway, whereas Pattinson has appeared in Good Time and The Lighthouse. Therefore, their involvement in Die, My Love suggests that the film is one to look out for in 2025.

The upcoming Die, My Love also marks the return of director Lynne Ramsay after seven years. She previously directed Joaquin Phoenix in the critically acclaimed 2017 film You Were Never Really Here, so it will be great to see her work with two more incredible actors in Lawrence and Pattinson. Die, My Love is an adaptation of the 2017 novel of the same...

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...

Robert Pattinson has come quite far since his role in the Twilight movies, which, to be fair, was one of his worst acting jobs. Throughout the four films, Pattinson’s performance progressively worsened. However, he did not have much to go on with the vampire character. Pattinson proved to be a performer in films like The Childhood of a Leader, Good Time, and The Lighthouse.

Robert Pattinson will play Mickey Barnes in Mickey 17 | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures

Pattinson was not a fan-favorite when he was cast in the role of Batman. However, he surprised fans with his darker take on the character, something Matt Reeves also got credit for. The film has now set a major benchmark that James Gunn will have to surpass with his Dcu film, The Brave and the Bold. However, Pattinson’s upcoming projects seem to have more promise than his role as the Dark Knight.

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...

Exclusive: Deadline has the first still from Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson and Lakeith Stanfield, the new thriller from renowned Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), which adapts the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz.

Set in rural America, Die, My Love is a portrait of a woman (Lawrence) engulfed by love and madness. Pattinson plays her husband, and Stanfield, her lover. Also in the cast are Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.

Ramsay directed from her script written with Enda Walsh. Producers included Justine Ciarrocchi and Lawrence on behalf of Excellent Cadaver, as well as Martin Scorsese, Andrea Calderwood, and Black Label Media, which also served as the project’s financier.

In a statement accompanying the photo reveal, Excellent Cadaver told Deadline, “It’s impossible to convey what it’s like to witness Lynne Ramsay make art. She’s one of one.”

Known for her Cannes-debuting drama Ratcatcher,...

One Shot invites close readings of the basic unit of film grammar.Morvern Callar.Flowers are for life and for death; in Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar (2002), the titular protagonist roams a mausoleum in her new floral party dress, flanked on either side by memorial bouquets. Behind her trail two bewildered literati, who have just offered her £100,000 for the novel they think she wrote. The manuscript’s real author, Morvern’s boyfriend, has been in the ground for a time. After he killed himself, Morvern dismembered and buried his body, emptied his bank account, and went on holiday to Spain. When the publishers ask Morvern what her next project might be, she answers, “I work in a supermarket.”Across her filmography, Ramsay’s main characters are common people who find themselves disoriented and blinking through encounters with death and darkness. Their actual circumstances are ordinary, sordid, tragic, predictable: a child...

Monica Beletsky, the creator, executive producer and showrunner on “Manhunt,” has signed with management and production company 42.

“Manhunt,” which starred Emmy-winner Tobias Menzies and Anthony Boyle, premiered this year on Apple TV+. Beletsky also served as a writer and producer on the third season of FX’s “Fargo,” starring Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The season received 16 Emmy nominations and three Golden Globe nominations, and earned Beletsky a shared Emmy nomination for Outstanding Limited Series, alongside Writers’ Guild Award and PGA Award nods. She was the only female writer and producer nominated in the Outstanding Limited Series category that year.

In addition, Beletsky’s credits include NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” and “Parenthood,” as well as HBO’s “The Leftovers.” From 2019 to 2022, Beletsky was on an overall deal at Apple TV+, and she has previously developed features for HBO Films, Tristar/Sony and Amazon, in addition to...

It will soon be a year since the devastating October 7 attacks on Israel and the conflict seems to continue to escalate with no ceasefire in sight. Tens of thousands have been killed in the ongoing conflict, with the world divided in support of both Israel and Palestine. Massive protests and calls for a ceasefire have been seen around the world.

Hollywood celebrities like Beyonce and Taylor Swift have been criticized for their silence on the ongoing conflict. However, many celebrities have used their influence and platform to support individual causes and have been equally condemned and praised for it. Here are a few celebrities who have voiced their stance on the conflict.

Joaquin Phoenix Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here | Credits: Amazon Studios

Joker star Joaquin Phoenix has been a vocal proponent of many causes in his career. He was among the 150 Jewish celebrities from Hollywood who signed...