Although Julianne Moore had recently hinted that she might be shooting Lynne Ramsay’s “Stone Mattress” at the end of 2024, it is actually not going to be Ramsay’s next film.
We now have it confirmed that Ramsay will first be shooting “Die, My Love,” with Jennifer Lawrence set to star, this coming July in Canada (via The Calgary Herald). This is a major development as Ramsay hasn’t released a film in almost seven years.
“Die, My Love,” an adaptation of a novel by Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz, is being described as a stark tale set in rural France of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood. Martin Scorsese is set to produce the film.
Lawrence had previously described the novel as reading “like Sylvia Plath, especially because it's about a woman suffering from postpartum and cycling into madness.” The film adaptation is now practically guaranteed to premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Ramsay recently admitted, at the Icelandic Film Center, that she actually has four scripts ready to shoot. There’s the ones already mentioned (“Die, My Love,” “Stone Mattress”) and also “Polaris,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara. The filmmaker also co-wrote another project, titled “Hierarchies,” but no further details were given about that one.
Ramsay is a major talent. She’s only directed four films during the course of her 24-year career (“Ratcatcher,” “Morvern Callar,” “We Need to Talk About Kevin” and, her last one, 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here”). It sounds like she has a lot on her plate these days and will, hopefully, be shooting two films this year.