“Die My Love” (*1/2 out of fou) was an oppressively unpleasant Midwestern gothic melodrama about a young mother (Jennifer Lawrenc) who finds herself drifting away into madness and her redneck partner (Robert Pattinson) and elderly parents (Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte) watch helplessly from the sidelines. Strikingly shot by Seamus McGarvey but film drowns in an excess of pretentious symbolism and winds up aimless and adrift. Lawrence once again proves she’s game at playing difficult characters but that doesn’t mean we like or care about her much- and the same goes for the film.

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