Now she returns to the Riviera with the no less incendiary Die, My Love — and this time we need to talk about mommy. If maternal trauma was the subtext of the Lionel Shriver-based Kevin, in this adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel it rises starkly to the surface.

Lynne Ramsay's actors spoke at the film's press conference in Cannes on Sunday, the morning after the 'Die, My Love' premiered at the Palais.

Last year, the Cannes Film Festival produced three best actress nominees at the Oscars. This year’s edition may have just supplied another. In Lynne