Cannes 2017: Lynne Ramsay's 'You Were Never Really Here' is Superb

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Cannes saved the best for last. Lynne Ramsay’s new film You Were Never Really Here was the very last competition film to premiere at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Rumor is that this played last because she was finishing it within the last week and just barely got it ready in time for the festival. The good news is that this film is pretty much perfect as is, and I hope she doesn’t change too much after the festival, because I really adore it. I went to see it twice during the festival because it’s lean and mean and pretty much perfect, there’s nothing she can cut from it, and everything about it is fantastic. Masterful filmmaking telling a story of a brutal, broken man who has a big heart. I wasn’t expecting this film to be so damn good, but it really is. ›››

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