Lynne Ramsay’s long-awaited new film, Die, My Love, has been announced as a late addition to this year’s Cannes competition lineup. The film, which is Ramsay’s first for eight years, stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson and concerns a woman in rural America who experiences psychosis after the birth of her baby.
The inclusion of Ramsay’s movie takes the number of female director’s in the official selection to seven – a record for the festival. It also means that a British director is now in the running for this year’s Palme d’Or.
Ramsay previously won the screenplay award at Cannes for her 2017 film You Were Never Really Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix; both 2011’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and 2002’s Morvern Callar also premiered at the festival.
Other high-profile additions to the festival include Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, a passion project adaptation of The Chronology of Water. The film, which stars Imogen Poots, will premiere in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, alongside two other previously announced debuts by A-list actors: Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor the Great, starring June Squibb, and Harris Dickinson’s Urchin.
Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t! has also been added to the midnight screenings: the film is the second in his “lesbian B-movie trilogy” after last year’s Drive-Away Dolls. Margaret Qualley returns, alongside Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans.
Other additions include Saeed Roustaee’s Woman and Child in competition. The film festival will take place 13-24 May.
