In Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love , Jennifer Lawrence unleashes, in all senses of the word. As Grace, a new mother trapped in rural Montana with only her feckless husband, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), concerned mother-in-law, Pam (Sissy Spacek), a few roaming horses, and her 6-month-old baby for company, she grows feral with lust, rage, sadness, and boredom. She growls and purrs at Jackson as they have sex on the kitchen floor. She claws at the bathroom walls until her fingernails bleed. She masturbates in the grass with a knife in one hand. She tries to jump out of a moving car. She throws herself through a glass door. She yanks a sink out of the wall. It’s a dynamic, destructive, and often incredibly funny performance, one that’s already garnered Oscar buzz .

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