Overview
- Following its Cannes competition premiere, the film enters general release with strong attention on Lawrence’s performance.
- Ramsay’s fifth feature resists genre labels, employing an achronological structure and poetic, symbolic imagery.
- Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey shot the film on analog 35 mm to underscore its tactile, impressionistic style.
- The story, adapted from Ariana Harwicz’s novel, reached Jennifer Lawrence after Martin Scorsese sent the book to her company Excellent Cadaver.
- Robert Pattinson co-stars as Jackson, while critics discuss the film’s ambiguous reality and its challenge to stereotyped motherhood.