For the primary time in her profession, Lynne Ramsay plans to direct an actor she’s labored with earlier than on one other venture. It simply could shock some who she’s determined to collaborate with as soon as extra.
“I’m making a vampire film,” Ramsay mentioned in a latest interview with The Los Angeles Instances, including, “It’s with Ezra Miller who was in ‘Kevin.’ He’s the primary character. That’s in growth.”
Regardless of being such a formidable determine in worldwide cinema during the last 25 years, it could be surprising for some to find that Lynne Ramsay has solely made 5 characteristic movies (“Ratcatcher,” “Morvern Callar,” “We Have to Discuss About Kevin,” “You Have been By no means Actually Right here,” and “Die My Love“). She’s directed a variety of quick movies as effectively, and it’s not as if she hasn’t needed to make extra, but it surely’s typically simpler mentioned than executed.
“It’s not by design. It’s simply life takes over,” she mentioned. “I’ve a daughter, there was COVID, stuff practically will get there and falls by. It’s only a robust business.”
Ramsay additionally considers herself a “choosy” filmmaker in that if she’s going to “keep on with a venture for 2 or three years,” she desires to be obsessed with each facet. This wasn’t the case when she lately tried to adapt a Margaret Atwood quick story from the novella “Stone Mattress” with actress Julianne Moore. Issues arose when producers pushed for a location that didn’t work and led to script modifications.
“The actor, Julianne Moore, would do a few strains in a single location, fly 4 hours and do the remainder of the scene. And I simply don’t work like that,” mentioned Ramsay. “I can’t do all of it damaged up in items and it’s not good for the actors both.”
Finally she walked away and Jennifer Lawrence introduced Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” to her. The movie lately had its premiere in Predominant Competitors on the 2025 Cannes Movie Competition, practically a decade after her final characteristic, “You Have been By no means Actually Right here.”
In IndieWire’s assessment out of Cannes, Ryan Lattanzio mentioned of the postpartum drama, “You haven’t lived till you’ve seen Jennifer Lawrence doing any of the debasing issues she does in Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Die My Love,’ like crawling on all fours by a subject of grass, a kitchen knife in hand as she closes in on her character Grace’s new child child, or masturbating gloomily in a state of postpartum doom whereas her husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson) finishes cooking dinner downstairs, a self-induced orgasm timed to the spring of a toaster beneath.”
Hopefully the following one doesn’t take as lengthy, as Ramsay advised the LA Instances she has “three scripts” within the works, all at completely different phases. Ramsay acknowledged that she doesn’t need to go away audiences hanging both.
“You gained’t await 10 years,” she mentioned. “I don’t have 10 years. I’ve obtained to do it faster than that.”
“Die My Love” will likely be launched later this 12 months from Mubi.