Film
You Were Never Really Here (15)
Lynne Ramsay’s stark inversion of the noir thriller is a devastatingly brutal portrayal of one man’s battle with repression and abuse. Joe is a Gulf War veteran and former FBI agent turned killer-for-hire. When Nina, a US Senator’s daughter is kidnapped, he is contracted to save the girl.
Having located her in a seedy New York brothel, his escape plan derails; unleashing a maelstrom of violence that ultimately takes him deeper into a hallucinatory darkness. Ramsay is more concerned with the psyche of her unhinged protagonist than she is with the action, rejecting exploitation, cutting away from the action rather than to it.
Dir. Lynne Ramsay, UK/US, 2017, 95 mins. Cast. Joachin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola.
Having located her in a seedy New York brothel, his escape plan derails; unleashing a maelstrom of violence that ultimately takes him deeper into a hallucinatory darkness. Ramsay is more concerned with the psyche of her unhinged protagonist than she is with the action, rejecting exploitation, cutting away from the action rather than to it.
Dir. Lynne Ramsay, UK/US, 2017, 95 mins. Cast. Joachin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola.
