MUBI goes huge, sans platform launch, this weekend with Lynne Ramsay’s psychosexual postpartum frenzy “Die My Love” in theaters across the nation. It’s the distributor and streamer’s widest launch since “The Substance” took an analogous trajectory final yr, finally incomes greater than $17 million within the U.S.
The movie stars Jennifer Lawrence in a efficiency as confrontational and abrasive because the one she gave in Darren Aronofsky’s “mom!” Right here, she performs a sputtering-out author struggling despair and psychosis after giving delivery to her first baby. Lawrence, who was within the second trimester of her second being pregnant whereas filming, shot the film in Calgary, Canada, with co-stars Robert Pattinson (who performs her hapless husband), Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, and LaKeith Stanfield.
Some minor editorial reshapings had been achieved, as Ramsay defined to IndieWire in a current interview, for the reason that film premiered at Cannes in Could. “Die My Love” shouldn’t be going to repeat horror film “The Substance’s” field workplace numbers by any means for MUBI, however the level of the huge launch isn’t that: It’s to lure extra subscribers to its arthouse streaming platform.
Display screen Discuss podcast hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio reassess “Die My Love” post-Cannes on this week’s episode. Lawrence has to knock out one in a stacked deck of Greatest Actress Oscar contenders — Jessie Buckley, Renate Reinsve, Emma Stone, Rose Byrne, and Cynthia Erivo — to make it into the ultimate 5.
Elsewhere on this week’s episode, we additionally have a look at the state of the race for Netflix’s slate of awards contenders, with Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” rising amongst Academy voters Anne has spoken to because the film enters its first weekend of streaming. Anne and Ryan each have an excellent feeling about “Prepare Desires” scoring a Greatest Actor Oscar nomination and a Greatest Tailored Screenplay nomination for Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar. “Jay Kelly” can be enjoying effectively for hometown business voters, and up in opposition to one other business film however one flung to Norway, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Worth.” Netflix’s “A Home of Dynamite,” in the meantime, has struggled since enjoying festivals after Venice regardless of robust streaming showings within the Netflix high 10 the final two weeks.
Hearken to the podcast within the episode beneath.
