Jennifer Lawrence stirs Oscar talk in Cannes for 'Die, My Love'

CANNES – Last year, the Cannes Film Festival produced 3 champion histrion nominees astatine the Oscars. This year's variation whitethorn person conscionable supplied another.

In Lynne Ramsay's “Die, My Love,” Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson play a joined mates with a newborn who determination into an aged state house. In Ramsay's messy and moving marital psychodrama, Lawrence plays an progressively unhinged young parent named Grace whose postpartum slump reaches darkly hallucinatory extremes.

For Lawrence, the 34-year-old parent of two, making “Die, My Love” was an intensely idiosyncratic experience.

“It was truly hard to abstracted what I would bash arsenic opposed to what (Grace) would do,” Lawrence told reporters Sunday. “I had conscionable had my firstborn, and there’s not truly thing similar postpartum. It’s highly isolating. She doesn’t person a community. She doesn’t person her people. But the information is, utmost anxiousness and utmost slump is isolating, nary substance wherever you are. You consciousness similar an alien."

“Die, My Love,” which is successful contention for the Palme d'Or astatine Cannes, was 1 of the astir anticipated premieres of the festival. That was owed partially to the wide respect for Ramsey, the Scottish manager of “Ratcatcher" (1999), “Movern Callar” (2002) and “ You Were Never Really Here” (2017). Lawrence sought her retired for the film.

“I’ve wanted to enactment with Lynne Ramsay since I saw 'Ratcatcher' and I was like, ‘There’s nary way,'” said Lawrence. “But we took a chance, and we sent it to her. And I really, I cannot judge that I’m present with you.”

In Ramsay's “Die, My Love," adapted from Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 novel, is disorienting experience, pulsating with animalistic urges and . As a representation of a matrimony successful trouble, it makes “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” look tame.

Lawrence's performance, successful particular, drew the benignant of raves successful Cannes that thin to pb to Oscar consideration. Lawrence has been nominated 4 times by the Academy Awards, winning erstwhile for 2013's “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Since then, overmuch has changed for Lawrence, including becoming a mother. On Saturday, Lawrence said parenthood has been specified an enriching acquisition for her that, she joked, "I highly urge having kids if you privation to beryllium an actor.”

“Having children changes everything. It changes your full life. It’s brutal and incredible," Lawrence said. “I didn’t cognize that I could consciousness truthful much.”

“My occupation has a batch to bash with emotion, and they’ve opened up the satellite to me,” she added. "It’s astir similar feeling similar a blister oregon something. So sensitive. So they’ve changed my life, obviously, for the best, and they’ve changed maine creatively.”

Pattinson, who precocious had his archetypal kid with Suki Waterhouse, chimed successful that helium recovered having a babe “gives you the biggest trove of vigor and inspiration.”

Lawrence mockingly pounced connected him: “You get energy?!”

Pattinson fto retired a sigh. “This question is intolerable for a feline to reply correctly,” helium said, to laughter.

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