Fresh off a Golden Globe nomination for star Jennifer Lawrence, we caught up with a crucial crew member of the Alberta-shot film Die My Love team to learn some key spots where it was made.
The film, starring Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, was directed by Lynne Ramsay and shot around southern Alberta last year.
The film’s synopsis details a “hopeful young and loving couple (Grace, played by Lawrence, and Jackson, played by Pattinson) who move from New York to an inherited house in the country. Grace tries to find her identity with a new baby in an isolated environment. Yet as she begins to unravel, it’s not in weakness but imagination, strength and a stunning untamed vivacity that she discovers herself anew.”
The movie had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, and hit theatres on Nov. 7. The supporting cast includes Get Out actor LaKeith Stanfield, three-time Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte, and Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek.
If any eagle-eyed viewers wondered where it was filmed in Alberta, Daily Hive spoke with Edsel Hilchie, location manager for the film, about some key spots of the movie.
Hilchie said that he got the job from the producer of the film, who was in need of more people to scout for locations in Alberta, and was eventually asked if he would like to be the location manager.
The primary reason the film came to Alberta was that the main location and much of the heart of the movie were discovered in the province. The director, producers, and designer had been looking for a place for it to land, having already looked at Ontario and Manitoba, and glanced at the potential for Saskatchewan.
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They were on the hunt for the farmhouse that is key to much of the film, and when the director, Ramsay, was sent photos of a farmhouse that was nestled just outside of Calgary city limits, she was very receptive to the area.
“There was very positive feedback from her on this location, to the point of, ‘I want to come to Alberta and look at it,’ so, and that’s kind of, I think, why I got the call, was ‘okay, she’s coming here,’” Hilchie said.
“When we went to the one farmhouse where we did film, where we found that she spent a good time, you know, a good portion of the day, just wandering around. You could just tell she has fallen in love with this location, to the point when we went to the other farmhouses, it was like, ‘no, this is not it.’”
The farmhouse that was used as the home of Lawrence’s and Pattinson’s characters was, in fact, a former family-run dairy farm that had been around for a long time and had fallen into disuse.
The location, which is somewhere between Calgary and Airdrie, was optimal for the film, with Hilchie touting it as a “backlot playground” for Ramsay and the cast to be able to work in, thanks to the home being empty, plenty of surrounding buildings, and fields. It had everything.
Ramsay also envisioned scenes with long grass, something the farmhouse location could easily offer, without the hassle of having to move off the property to shoot.
“It was incredibly valuable. It was a great location; it literally was just a back lot. And it was just outside the city limits of Calgary, so it was really close,” Hilchie added.
Some spots in Calgary were also used, including the Vecova Recreation Centre, with cast and crew in it over the Labour Day weekend of 2024, as well as a beach scene at Sikome Lake, inside Fish Creek Provincial Park, around the same time frame.
Didsbury and Okotoks were also locations used in the film, with a home in Okotoks being tapped to be used as a friend’s house, thanks to it having an outdoor swimming pool, a quality not many homes in Alberta tend to have.
“What we discovered was there were pockets of these homes with outdoor swimming pools in neighbourhoods; if you found one, you found four or five others very close to that one house that had a swimming pool. It’s just the last thing I would have thought of, and we shot that scene in October.”
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Hilchie added that, in typical Alberta fashion, he cautioned the cast and crew from out of province about how snow very well could show up, as filming bled into October.
“I warned them, and they didn’t believe me. I kept saying, at some point we’re gonna have snow, like we’re gonna have snow, and we never had snow. It got to the point where everyone was taking bets on when the snow was gonna start. But we got through, and never did snow. It was perfect.”
Die My Love will be available to stream on Mubi on Dec. 23, 2025.
