Pam (Sissy Spacek) knows a bad case of the baby blues when she sees it.

She realizes that’s what’s going on with new mom Grace (Jennifer Lawrence), an author whose writing is blocked and whose actions and mood swings become more erratic, disruptive and alarming in filmmaker Lynne Ramsay’s latest gnarly comedy/drama — a dark journey into the mindset of a woman in the throes of postpartum depression.

Pam, soon to become Grace’s mother-in-law, tells her that everybody in her position goes loopy. True. But not even Pam entirely understands the rollercoasting emotions Grace experiences when she moves with her hard-drinking boyfriend Jackson (Robert Pattinson) and their newborn into a rural home where Jackson’s uncle took his own life. The rundown house, with flies buzzing around and eventuall

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