Jennifer Lawrence premieres ‘Die My Love’ at Rome Film Festival

Jennifer Lawrence is in Rome to present 'Die My Love' by director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here), already featured in competition at Cannes, CE Report quotes ANSA.

The 35-year-old Oscar-winning American actress will walk the red carpet tonight at the Rome Film Festival. In Die My Love, Ramsay adapts the novel by Ariana Harwicz, casting Lawrence as Grace, a woman living with her husband in the middle of nowhere — a remote farm in rural Montana — as she struggles with severe postpartum depression.

While talking about parenthood at the San Sebastian Film Festival, she had already said that she is terrified for the future of her children.

"There’s no more empathy — is it now normal for politicians to lie, to lack integrity?"

And now, at the Rome Film Fest, she reiterates her concern in a calmer tone:

“I hope for empathy and peace, and that we can all appreciate and take care of what we have, and raise my children to become good citizens who respect others.”

Motherhood becomes a battleground, femininity a prison, and amid sexual excesses and violent outbursts, even love loses its meaning.

“I think postpartum depression today at least has a name,” Lawrence says.

“I can’t imagine what it must have been like before, when no one knew what was happening. Being a mom is really hard — it would be nice if everyone was truly aware of how much work it takes to raise children, especially while also being a working mother.”

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