Lynne Ramsay begins filming “Die, My Love” with Jennifer Lawrence next month

Considering that she has only made four films in the last quarter century, each new Lynne Ramsay film is highly anticipated. After the 2017 film You were never really hereThe director has no fewer than five possible projects in mind. Now things finally seem to be moving forward, as a summer production in Canada has been confirmed.

An adaptation of the 2019 novel by Ariana Harwicz Die, my lovewhich follows a mother trying to maintain her sanity in a remote rural area while battling psychosis, is set to shoot in Alberta, Canada, from August to October, the Calgary Herald and the Director’s Guild of Canada confirmed. So far, only Jennifer Lawrence is set to star, but more casting news is expected soon. Die, my love will be Lawrence’s first project since last year’s summer comedy No hard feelings.

“It’s about mental health and the breakdown of a marriage,” Ramsay said last year. “But it’s really bloody funny. At least I think it’s funny… But I’m from Glasgow, so I have a really dark sense of humour.” Read the book summary below, which draws comparisons to the works of John Cassavetes, David Lynch, Lars von Trier and John Ford.

In a deserted piece of French countryside, a woman struggles with her demons – she is excluded and yet wants to belong, she longs for freedom and yet feels trapped, she longs for a family life and yet wants to burn down the whole house. Although her family is surprisingly accepting of her increasingly erratic behavior, she nevertheless feels more and more constrained and oppressed. Motherhood, womanhood, the banality of love, the horrors of desire, the inexplicable brutality of “having another person carry your heart forever” – Die, my love meets all this with a raw intensity. It is not a question of If a breaking point is reached, but When and what violent form will it take?

This is a brutal, wild book – it is impossible to come away unscathed from reading Ariana Harwicz. The language of Die, my love cuts like a scalpel, but achieves a kind of cinematic splendor, reminiscent of John Cassavetes, David Lynch, Lars von Trier and John Ford. In a text that examines the destabilizing effects of passion and its absence, delving into the psyche of a female protagonist who is always on the brink of madness, Harwicz, in the tradition of Sylvia Plath and Clarice Lispector, shapes language and bends it to her will in irreverent prose. Punchy and confrontational, yet anchored in an unabashed beauty and lyricism, Die, my love is a unique reading experience that quickly becomes addictive.