A missing teenage girl. A brutal and tormented enforcer on a rescue mission. Corrupt power and vengeance unleash a storm of violence that may lead to his awakening.
"I think that most filmmakers have certain psychological perspectives and are interested in the question of the human condition. Personally, I enjoy getting to know my characters in depth; their beauty, their flaws and all their different facets. Also, while we were filming I felt like I was going through a post-traumatic episode myself, because the story makes such a powerful impact on the mind. […] Obviously, Taxi Driver is a magnificent film that approaches the genre in a very interesting way, but I didn’t really have that film in mind while I was shooting mine. Maybe there’s the odd reference here and there, but I didn’t slip them in on purpose. I was actually a big fan of genre films when I was young and so perhaps they’ve had some influence on me, but what I wanted to do is approach the kind of story you find in genre cinema in a different way. […] I always imagine the music and the sound before I start filming, and for this film, I wanted to pay more attention to that than to the script. Jonny Greenwood is a terrific musician, and I’m so happy that he agreed to be a part of the film". [Lynne Ramsay, interview by Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa.org]
Lynne Ramsay (Glasgow, 1969) is considered one of the British most original and exciting voices working in Independent cinema today. She has a long running relationship with Cannes winning the Prix de Jury in 1996 for her graduation film, the short Small Deaths and in 1998 for her third short Gasman. Her debut feature film Ratcatcher premiered in Un Certain Regard (2000) winning Special Mention. We Need to Talk About Kevin was the only British film nominated for the Palme d’Or in official competition in 2011. It received several BAFTA nominations and won Best Director at the British Independent Film Awards, Best film at the London Film Festival and Best Screenplay from the Writers Guild of Great Britain. Swimmer, commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad of Great Britain (2012), won the BAFTA (2013) for Best short film.
2017 You Were Never Really Here
2012 Swimmer [short]
2011 We Need to Talk About Kevin
2002 Morvern Callar
1999 Ratcatcher [Ratcatcher - Acchiappatopi]
1998 Gasman [short]
1997 Kill the Day [short]
1996 Small Deaths [short]
PROGRAM
07/12/2017 h 21:00: Teatro Sociale preceded by RAYMOND CHANDLER AWARD 2017
to Margaret Atwood
