Die My Love

What’s it about?

A psychological drama about a young mother with poor mental health. Her partner’s efforts to support her falter as her condition worsens. From the director of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

The facts

• Directed by Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here)
• English language
• Runtime: 119 minutes
• Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattison, Sissy Spacek and LaKeith Stanfied
• Nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2025

Why did it get this rating?

This film was classified by Te Mana Whakaatu, Classification Office. You can find out more about classification process and ratings here.

Mental health themes

The film depicts a woman’s mental health unravelling after giving birth and remaining at home to care for the baby. She makes some questionable parenting decisions but always shows love towards the baby, and the baby isn’t harmed in any scenes.

There are several characters shown to be struggling with mental health, portrayed through actions such as sleep-walking, drinking, infidelity, abduction and abandonment.

Self-harm

As the woman’s mental health unravels she acts irrationally and at times violently. Some acts cause herself physical harm and may be upsetting for viewers. These include:

• Throws herself through a glass door. We see subsequent cuts on her face.
• Destroying a bathroom and clawing at the walls until her nails bleed.
• Smashing her head hard against a mirror. The sound and image is shocking. She has a bloodied wound on her forehead afterwards.
• Giving a large kitchen knife to an unknown man and telling him to cut his own lip.

We see a woman walk naked into forest fire. The scene is surreal and could be interpreted as suicide ideation.

There is reference to an older character that suicided by shooting himself in the ‘ass’.

Sex scenes

There are several sex scenes in the film which show full frontal female nudity, and several semi-clothed. In one scene a woman masturbates on the bed, putting her hand into her underwear.

There is also non-sexual breast nudity: a woman’s bare breast is seen after she has breastfed, and she is briefly shown topless walking through her house. She makes some ink splotches on a page and some breastmilk drops from her bare breast on to the page.

Offensive language

There is very occasional swearing in the film. A couple argue about their lacklustre sex life, referring to sex as ‘f*cking’. Other strong words used in the film include ‘sh*t’, ‘asshole’, and ‘f*ggot’ which is used aggressively to insult.

Violence

Two animals are shown injured in the film, and in both instances the scene is dark and the wounds are seen only briefly. A horse is hit by a car, it gets up and runs off. Later we see bloodied wounds on its head. A dog is injured while a passenger in the car that crashed. We hear it whimpering, and later a character gently carries it into a field to shoot it. We briefly see the bloodied injury causing the dog pain, and then we see the character from a distance fire a shot. We subsequently see the dog being buried.

The car crash is a brief violent moment that appears abruptly in the film. The effect is shocking, and both adult passengers in the front are shown to have hit their heads with mildly bloody wounds.

Helplines:

The mental health struggles and self harm depicted could be upsetting for some viewers, especially for those who have gone through similar experiences. If you are struggling with what you have seen on-screen please reach out for help. If you or someone you know needs to talk:

• 1737
• Safe to talk
• Lifeline
• Youthline

Further information

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