ROME, OCT 20 -  Hunger Games icon Jennifer Lawrence said in presenting her latest film Die My Love at the Rome Film Festival Monday that she still fears for children's futures but hopes for peace.

    The Silver Linings Playbook Oscar winner, 35, whose other credits include Joy, Winter's Bone, American Hustle and Don't Look Up, echoed what said at the San Sebastian Film Festival: "I'm terrified for the future of our children.

There's no empathy left. Is it normal for politicians today to lie and lack integrity?" Here at the Rome Film Fest, she reiterated it in a more subdued tone: "I hope for empathy and peace, and that we can all appreciate and cherish what we have, and that I can raise my children to be good citizens who respect others." Lawrence is in Rome to present 'Die My Love' by Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really There), already in competition at Cannes.
    The Oscar-winning American actress will be on the red carpet at the Rome Film Fest tonight.
    In 'Die My Love,' the director, adapting Ariana Harwicz's novel, portrays Lawrence as Grace, a woman living with her husband in the middle of provincial America, on a remote farm in Montana, struggling with severe postpartum depression.
    Motherhood becomes a battlefield for her, femininity a prison, and between sexual excesses and violent acts, love itself loses its meaning.
    "I think postpartum depression," she says, "at least has a name today.
    "I can't imagine what it meant before, when no one knew what was happening.
    "Being a mother is really hard anyway; it would be nice if everyone was truly aware of the work that goes into raising children and being a working mother."
   

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