You Were Never Really Here

Antonio 2021-12-21 08:01:07

The fourth feature from the button-pushing Lynne Ramsay, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE pits Joaquin Phoenix's emotionally blocked veteran Joe against a sordid child prostitution ring, meanwhile he is also seeking an outlet from the besetting trauma of his checkered past.

It is a gut-wrenching story on...

Josie 2022-03-28 09:01:04

Despite being touted by the press as the 21st-century Taxi Driver when it was released in France, Lynne Ramsey's overly stylized work is nothing more than an anti-genre experiment with mixed reviews. The film won Best Actor and Best Screenplay at Cannes last year, and there's no need to say much...

Betty 2022-03-22 09:02:00

C + / Four stars for editing, soundtrack for photography, Psycho and the male lead respectively, this script still suspects that I didn't understand it at all until the last second. The psychological exploration of traumatized men from the perspective of women is really delicate but the connection is not smooth enough. I want to handle a genre story as an emotionally-driven work, but I'm stuck in the middle and not coherent enough. The expectation is too high and the gap is slightly larger, but I still hang the best director Coppola. Thank you. :)

Chase 2022-03-25 09:01:10

In 88/100, Ramsay used an aggressive audio-visual system to serve her goal of simplifying narrative, beginning with a series of psychological symbols, and fully amplifying daily ambient sound effects to fill the entire image space, finely scheduling and Tricky camera position, in order to pull together with the protagonist to carry out a journey of rescue and self-redemption. The memory insertion of the constant flashback clips, the event launch that almost only retains the "result", and the excellent performance of Joaquin Phoenix completely completes the work, love it! So stylish!