This Saturday, May 17, the official competition of the 78th Cannes Film Festival highlighted three long-awaited feature films: Renoir Signed Chie Hayakawa, New wave Directed by Richard Linklater, and Die, My LoveLynne Ramsay’s latest project.
It is the latter who particularly attracted attention to the red carpet, in particular thanks to the presence of two large figures of Hollywood cinema: Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. The duo, playing this intense thriller, made the trip to the Croisette, creating one of the most striking moments of the day.
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We knew Jennifer Lawrence capable of everything, but in Die My Loveit pushes its limits. For two hours, the actress delivers a mad intensity performance: she shouts, she cries, she vacillates without ever weakening. A woman on the edge of the abyss. Trapped in a stiflingwhich gradually rocks in a second state.
All carried by an ultra-silted sound work, capable of starting as to upset. With this achievement signed Lynne Ramsay, as crazy as it is elegant, Die My
Love is one of the shocks of this Cannes edition. And if Jennifer Lawrence, already ovationed on the Croisette, left with the interpretation price ? Or more? The countdown is launched …
Jennifer Lawrence’s shock confidences on her postpartum depression
Present in Cannes to defend Die My LoveJennifer Lawrence did not hesitate to evoke her life as a young mother. An intimate experience that deeply nourished her in her acting. During the press conference, visibly touched, she sincerely shared what many women are going through after childbirth: “There is nothing comparable to postpartum. You feel so alonewhich is very interesting … l‘anxiety and depression extreme world cut you. We feel like an extraterrestrial“.
This personal experience resonates all the more in its role, as the border between fiction and reality seems fine. The Oscar -winning actress, who was waiting for her second child (she was five months pregnant during the shooting), said how much maternity had turned her report to the profession: “Have children change everything. It changes a lifetime. It’s brutal but also incredible“. She continues with emotion:”I did not know that I could feel so many things, and our work is very linked to emotions. So they have changed my lifeobviously, for better and they also transformed my creativity. I highly recommend having children if you want to become an actor“.
