You Were Never Really Here
Synopsis
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe’s nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
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Awards & Festivals
Cannes Film Festival
2017 | 2 wins including: Best Actor
Independent Spirit Awards
2019 | 4 nominations including: Best Male Lead
2019 | Winner: Best Editing
National Board of Review
2018 | Winner: Top 10 Independent Films
Through an accretion of extreme close-ups, masterfully disjointed editing, and impressionistic sound design, Lynne Ramsay’s master class in style as structure swallows up its protagonist in a world thrumming with the repercussions of his trauma.
Chloe Lizotte
January 02, 2019
Ramsay’s filmmaking is, as always, fluid and impressionistic. What’s new here is the steep sense of genre awareness. Everybody knows this is a film about a man with a hero complex, trying to survive a world that hates women. Ramsay, a director of immense imagination and offbeat taste, forces you to wonder whether that complex is worth it.
K. Austin Collins
December 05, 2018
From this character description, it seems like an unusually cliched choice for Ramsay. However, while Ramsay’s subject choice may seem conventional, You Were Never Really Here is anything but, and the film is definitively hers – another installment in a filmic career concerned with representing the repercussions of violence.
Katie Goh
August 08, 2018
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