Lynne Ramsay Is Still Cutting ‘Die My Love’

Lynne Ramsay Continues Refining 'Die My Love'

Lynne Ramsay, director of Die My Love, discusses her ongoing editing process since Cannes, the film's mixed reception at the festival, and her approach to knowing when a movie is complete.

Career Highlights at Cannes

Ramsay has taken all her films to Cannes, each featuring intense, psychological portraits centered on a single character's fractured mind.

Ratcatcher (1999) — A debut about a poor Glasgow boy dealing with tragedy, who seems mystically drawn to a canal.
Morvern Callar — Follows Samantha Morton’s character as she claims authorship of her dead boyfriend’s manuscript after dismembering and burying him.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) — One of that year’s most divisive films, portraying a mother’s psychological trauma after her son attacks a school with a bow and arrow.
You Were Never Really Here (2017) — Her first collaboration with Joaquin Phoenix, a tightly crafted thriller about a mercenary with PTSD, which won Best Screenplay at Cannes.

Reception of ‘Die My Love’

Die My Love, Ramsay’s first film in eight years, sparked divided opinions along the Croisette when it premiered in May.

“We Need to Talk About Kevin became one of 2011’s most controversial films, dousing us in the mental wreckage of a woman (Tilda Swinton) after her son shoots up his school with a bow and arrow.”

Ramsay’s signature style remains a confrontation with the human psyche, an approach evident in all her works.

Author’s Summary

Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love continues her tradition of exploring fractured psyches, evolving through ongoing edits after a divisive Cannes debut.

IndieWire — 2025-11-06

Lynne Ramsay Continues Refining 'Die My Love'

Career Highlights at Cannes

Reception of ‘Die My Love’

Author’s Summary

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