A Beautiful Day

You Were Never Really Here

Director: Lynne Ramsay
Country: United Kingdom, France

2017 | 90 min. | English
Subtitles: German
FSK 16

Cast_ Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola, Alex Manette, John Doman Screenplay_ Lynne Ramsay Camera_ Thomas Townend Producer_ Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, James Wilson, Lynne Ramsay Rights_ Constantin Film

The Taxi Driver of the 21st century! Together with Joaquin Phoenix, Lynne Ramsay brings new, unprecedented depth to the thriller genre.

Joe, a war veteran and former FBI agent, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. This taciturn hulk of a man earns his living as a bruiser and killer. In his private life, he cares devotedly for his senile mother. One day, he is hired to rescue a senator’s daughter from the hands of traffickers. The job gets out of hand and he finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy. Joe, however, is not about to abandon his plan to free the girl. His salvation depends on it.

With echoes of Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece, Lynne Ramsay brings a new dimension and depth to the thriller genre.

Director

Lynne Ramsay, born in Glasgow in 1969, is an multi award-winning director and screenwriter. Her first three short films ›Small Deaths‹ (1996), ›Kill the Day‹ (1996) and ›Gasman‹ (1998) already won several awards. This was followed by her feature film debut ›Ratcatcher‹ in 1999, which won her the British BAFTA Award. By 2017, she had made three more feature films, ›Morvern Callar‹ (2002), ›We Need to Talk About Kevin‹ (2011) and ›You Were Never Really Here‹ (2017), which each mark a milestone in cinema history in their own right. For 2025, ›Die, My Love‹ with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson has been announced.

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