Film
You Were Never Really Here
- Director
- Lynne Ramsay
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 90 mins
Lynne Ramsay‘s belated follow-up to We Need to Talk About Kevin: a stylish adaptation of Jonathan Ames‘s novel about a soldier-turned-hitman (a beardy Joaquin Phoenix) who’s hired to save the teenage daughter (Ekaterina Samsonov) of a politician from a child prostitution ring, but finds himself caught up in a conspiracy.
That sounds like the plot of a bog-standard Liam Neeson thriller but, as one might expect of Ramsay, this is a moody, dreamlike psychological drama that takes the material to a different place altogether.
It’s back on screen as part of the Watershed’s Sunday brunch OK Composer: The Scores of Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke season, which forms part of Filmic ’19.
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