This film delights women and infuriates men. A new film starring Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence is in theaters.

The book Die, My Love by Argentinian author Ariana Harwicz was released back in 2012, and a few years later it snatched a nomination for the Booker Prize - an undeniable recognition from critics. This story entered the world of cinema through Martin Scorsese's book club. The legendary director read the novel and sent it to the production company of Oscar laureate Jennifer Lawrence - this is how the team of filmmakers who told this story began to form.

Scorsese produced the film. Lynne Ramsay, a Scot with a love for themes of birth, death, guilt and innocence, was invited to direct - the perfect cocktail for a deep psychological film. And Lawrence's partner on set was Robert Pattinson, the star of "Twilight" - a teen hit from the noughties about vampire love.

In recent years, Pattinson has been choosing projects that are not for everyone: for example, the fantastic black comedy "Mickey 17" or Christopher Nolan's films, in which he starred in "Tenet" and to which he returned to participate in "Odyssey". It is not surprising that he liked the script for "Die, My Love".

Lawrence and Pattinson embody a young couple. Their characters, Grace and Jackson, move from noisy New York to Montana. They settle in a house on the edge of the forest that Jackson inherited, and plan a quiet life for themselves: Grace, a writer, plans to write a novel, and Jackson plans to make music.

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But they have a child, and this turns all their plans upside down. After giving birth, Grace sinks into severe depression. Her life is gray and lonely, her man leaves her for a long time for work, and when he returns, he complicates her life even more - for example, he brings home a noisy dog.

Grace feels that the former love has disappeared somewhere. A confused Jackson doesn't know what to do and distances himself from the woman, and she herself step by step sinks deeper into the trap of mental illness. It seems that the only one who understands Grace's condition is her mother-in-law Pam, but even she cannot reach the woman.

The premiere of "Die, My Love" took place in Cannes, and the film was appreciated with applause. However, it may not be easy for the average viewer to watch this film. It's not just the complex structure of the plot with numerous leaps into the past.

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Lynne Ramsay's film is an experiment in which she blurs the line between reality and the fantasies of a sick mind. A forest in flames, a mysterious biker who haunts Grace, an encounter with a black horse - it is difficult to say what of this was real, and what was skillfully woven into the script as metaphors for a psychological crisis, where the human ends and the animal begins.

Jennifer Lawrence is already being predicted to receive her fifth Oscar nomination for this role.

Robert Pattinson's character is not nearly as bright, but he allows Lawrence to open up and provides her with the chemistry that would make this story impossible.

Ramsay avoids the diagnosis of "postpartum depression" in the film, which many critics clung to, and sometimes hints that the roots of Grace's illness lie in her past life. And this allows her to make a film not about a specific diagnosis, but to explore in it the very phenomenon of madness and the great pain that lies behind it.

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This is another reason why it is uncomfortable to watch the film, because it is about the collision with someone else's pain, with which you can't do very much, and about which, about this female pain, is not so often talked about on the screen.

There remains one thing - not to turn away and let this pain pass through you.

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