Secrets of a Montana home. "Die, My Love" at the American Film Festival
A perfect housewife with a blonde bun, flared dress, and heels, waiting at the door for her husband to return from work? Hardly. Lynne Ramsay has jet-black hair and the same sharp edge, and the characters in her films are just as dark. Her latest work, Die, My Love—a study of isolation, maternal depression, and decay, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson—joins the program of the 16th American Film Festival. Ramsay herself moves into Next Door Neighbors, our dreamlike festival suburbia, and she’s bound to shake things up.
Die, My Love and other films from masters of American independent cinema will screen in Wrocław.
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Next Door Neighbor: Lynne Ramsay
This year's AFF visual identity is set to the rhythm of American suburbia, and we’re introducing the stars of the festival program as residents of our dream neighborhood. Richard Linklater tends the myth of suburbia (we’ll show three of his films), while the magnetic Josh O’Connor has become the European troublemaker (also featured in three productions). Now Lynne Ramsay brings a dose of darkness: unearthing secrets beneath manicured lawns, airing family quarrels, and stripping away polite smiles. In short, she’s here to stir the neighborhood.
Die, My Love
“What if we dropped everything and moved to Montana?” Grace and Jackson (Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson) must have asked themselves this question at some point, but unlike thousands of American city dwellers, they actually decided to escape. An old wooden house in the forest, a safe haven for raising a family. But life rarely resembles glossy catalog photos. In Ramsay’s world, idyllic scenes conceal blackened, rotting roots. The cracks appear shortly after their child’s birth, when euphoria gives way to routine and the weight of new roles limits the newly found carefreeness. Grace slips into depression, caught in a vacuum between the loss of her old identity and the adoption of a new, maternal one. Jackson is initially unaware of her suffering, then remains stubbornly helpless in the face of it. This impasse fuels Die, My Love’s tension—but Ramsay isn’t a couples therapist. She is a merciless observer of wounds and fractures, siding with lonely, suffering women. With echoes of Aronofsky’s Mother! she crafts her own vision of depression as a tragic curse of lost meaning. Love’s annihilation is captured through Jennifer Lawrence’s outstanding performance and the haunting sound of Joy Division’s cult ballad. (description by Maciej Satora, translated by Barbara Feliga)
The screening of Die, My Love at the American Film Festival is made possible thanks to our partnership with Monolith Films. The film opens in Polish cinemas this December.
We invite you to the 16th American Film Festival, November 6–11, 2025, at New Horizons Cinema in Wrocław. The full program will be announced October 21, with ticket sales and online access beginning October 23 at noon.
