You Were Never Really Here (2017)

[Akijama]

Insiders launch Lynne Ramsay thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix

Ramsay project

In Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, Phoenix will play a damaged war veteran, now a freelance rescuer of women trafficked into the sex trade.

When the extraction of a girl from a Manhattan brothel goes wrong, a storm of violence and corrupt power is unleashed against him, stirring a vengeance that may be his awakening.

Ramsay, whose last feature was the 2011 Golden Globe-nominated Tilda Swinton-starrer We Need to Talk About Kevin, will direct from her own adaptation of a novella by Jonathan Ames, who created the HBO show Bored To Death.

The UK’s Film4 and British Film Institute supported development of the project. Pascal Caucheteux, Rosa Attab and James Wilson are producing for Why Not Productions with Page 114 on board as co-

[AaronJ]

Well, I can't remember the last time that Joaquin Phoenix let me down. And although I still haven't seen We Need To Talk About Kevin I did hear a lot of good things.

This could definitely end up being pretty interesting.

[Will.]

Lynne Ramsay and Joaquin Phoenix

Originally Posted by AaronJ

I still haven't seen We Need To Talk About Kevin I did hear a lot of good things.

Please watch this as soon as you can, it's excellent.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Will.

Lynne Ramsay and Joaquin Phoenix



Please watch this as soon as you can, it's excellent.

That's what I keep hearing. Heh.

I am going to check it out soon. It obviously is engaging. And who doesn't love Tilda Swinton?

[Foggy]

Sounds like all kinds of awesome!

Originally Posted by AaronJ

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And although I still haven't seen We Need To Talk About Kevin I did hear a lot of good things.

[Hucksta G]

Originally Posted by Will.

Lynne Ramsay and Joaquin Phoenix

My thoughts exactly

[Ultra_Violence]

About time Ramsay announced a new film. I was disappointed with WNTTAK but her previous two are outstanding.

[Hucksta G]

Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence

About time Ramsay announced a new film. I was disappointed with WNTTAK but her previous two are outstanding.

I was only disappointed because the book was soooo good.

[Akijama]

A24 Picks Up Lynne Ramsay's Thriller 'You Were Never Really Here' With Joaquin Phoenix

It really sounds great.

A hero whose favorite weapon is a hammer clearly has issues. Lots of them.

Novelist, essayist, and creator of the beloved HBO series “Bored to Death,” Jonathan Ames is celebrated not only for his comic sensibilities and devotion to the absurd but for his lurid attraction to inner demons. In this shocking and suspenseful new novella, the author goes darker than noir, with an ass-kicking and psychologically tormented guardian angel who rescues others but refuses to save himself.

A former Marine and ex–FBI agent, Joe has seen one too many crime scenes and known too much trauma, and not just in his professional life. Solitary and haunted, he prefers to be invisible. He doesn’t allow himself friends or lovers and makes a living rescuing young girls from the deadly clutches of the sex trade. But when a high-ranking New York politician hires him to extricate his teenage daughter from a Manhattan brothel, Joe uncovers a web of corruption that even he may not be able to unravel. When the men on his trail take the only person left in the world who matters to him, he forsakes his pledge to do no harm. If anyone can kill his way to the truth, it’s Joe.

[Foggy]

Another one for A24, they're not leaving any stone unturned.

[Ultra_Violence]

Originally Posted by Hucksta G

I was only disappointed because the book was soooo good.

I was disappointed because I just didn't think it was that good. A bit too predictable and no I haven't read the book. Compare it to Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar it's a no contest. WNTTAK isn't a bad film at all though I just expected it to be on the level of Ramsay's previous two.

Anyone who hasn't seen Ramsay's short film Swimmer should do so now. It's an 18 minute visual masterpiece shot by Neon Demon cinematographer Natasha Braier.

[Cremildo]

Reax from Cannes:

[Foggy]

Yes!

[imsounoriginal]

Hadn't heard of this but it sounds good, A24 picking it up is encouraging. I know I'm late to this party but I'm slowly starting to work my way through their catalog and it's pretty strong.

[Heinz-Klett]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8FZxCZcxPM

[AaronJ]

Looks really interesting visually. And those reactions from Cannes were very strong. Looking forward to this.

[Cremildo]

[AaronJ]

Wow, all the films I was very excited about are cleaning up.

[A Tortured Duckling]

Joaquin is brilliant. I can't wait to see this.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Autumn Shroud

Joaquin is brilliant. I can't wait to see this.

He is. And like many great actors, he seems to be able to do anything.