With Jennifer Lawrence about to wow audiences with her performance in Apple TV+ drama Causeway (read our ★★★★ review here), the actress has revealed that her previously announced collaboration with Lynne Ramsay will be an adaptation of the Ariana Harwicz book Die, My Love.
During an interview with The New York Times in which the Academy Award winner discusses her decision to no longer star as Elizabeth Holmes in Adam McKay’s Bad Blood, and what drew her to do Gene Stupnitsky’s R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings, the most exciting nuggets of information relate to her project with You Were Never Really Here director Lynne Ramsay.
Lawrence announced that she would be working with the We Need to Talk About Kevin director at her 2022 BFI London Film Festival Screen Talk, but clarified in the article that the film the two would be working on together would be an adaptation of Ariana Harwicz 2018 novel Die, My Love, which the publisher’s synopsis describes as “a story set in a forgotten patch of French countryside, where a woman is battling her demons – embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but at the same time wanting to burn the entire house down. Given surprising leeway by her family for her increasingly erratic behaviour, she nevertheless feels ever more stifled and repressed. Motherhood, womanhood, the banality of love, the terrors of desire, the inexplicable brutality of another person carrying your heart forever.”
Lawrence will produce Die, My Love alongside her Excellent Cadaver producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi and Martin Scorsese.
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