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Die My Love

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             Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in “Die My Love.”  Kimberly French photo via IMDb.com Jennifer Lawrence is getting all the media buzz for her fearless, bare-it-all portrayal of a young mother losing her mind in “Die My Love.” But it's hardly a one-woman show. Besides Robert Pattinson as her well-intentioned but feckless husband, and icons Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte in the supporting ranks, almost everything else on the screen becomes a co-star under Lynne Ramsey's haunting direction. A ramshackle, ghosty Montana farmhouse is almost as much a character in the story as the New York transplants Grace (Lawrence) and Jackson (Pattinson) who move in after he inherits it from his recently deceased uncle.  Grace and Jackson make love and engage in hand-to-hand combat – sometimes you can't tell which is which – in these spooky environs that have their own gruesome back story. The mood is eerie. It's as though the house is watching...