Jennifer Lawrence promotes Die My Love in New York

Jennifer Lawrence spent the past week in New York promoting Die My Love, the Lynne Ramsay film in which she and Robert Pattinson play a young married couple whose lives unravel after the birth of their child. The film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, opens in theaters on November 7. It has drawn strong critical attention for its performances and its raw, unsettling depiction of postpartum mental illness.

Die My Love follows Grace, a writer who drifts into psychosis after moving from New York to a rural Montana community, and Jackson, her husband. The screenplay is adapted from a novel by Ariana Harwicz. The cast includes Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield and Nick Nolte, with Martin Scorsese serving as a producer. The film runs 1 hour and 58 minutes and has received broadly positive reviews, earning a favorable score from a major review aggregator and prompting praise from critics for director Lynne Ramsay’s approach and for Lawrence’s performance.

Speaking at the film’s New York premiere and in recent interviews, Lawrence said her own pregnancy and early motherhood shaped how she approached the role. “It was really helpful, because when you’re...