After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.
Acting
Lawrence's physical unraveling—her body becomes the performance.
Direction
Ramsay's subjective camera makes subjectivity terrifying.
Sound
That barking dog will haunt your nervous system.
Director
Lynne Ramsay
Jennifer Lawrence
Grace
Robert Pattinson
Jackson
Sissy Spacek
Pam
LaKeith Stanfield
Karl
Nick Nolte
Harry
Gabrielle Rose
Jen
Clare Coulter
Courtney
Sarah Lind
Cheryl
Luke Camilleri
Greg
Victor Zinck, Jr.
Tom
Debs Howard
Marsha
Phillip Forest Lewitski
Charlie
Georgina Lightning
Kathleen the Orderly
Darren Moore
Gerry
Lauren Viau
Bessie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ramsay reportedly screened 'Safe' (1995) for Lawrence repeatedly—Todd Haynes's suburban dread as direct ancestor.
The 'sexless marriage' keyword isn't accidental; this joins a wave of films interrogating compulsory domestic bliss post-Roe.
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