#23

I thought Morvern Callar was captivating and I think it’s the best I’ve seen of her style of filmmaking. I need to rewatch YWNRH (and aim to on Netflix soonish!).

Only one of those three I’ve seen I wasn’t so arsed about was We Need To Talk About Kevin. Individual scenes are brilliant - esp. the Halloween night - but on the whole it felt like her style jammed into a story that didn’t really suit it imo

#24

Fair enough, under 20 posts feel a bit sad but I suppose not all directors are gonna generate chat.

#25

I’m surprised by that. Michael Bay next!

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#26

All of this^

#27

Not gonna vote because I’ve only seen about half of You Were Never Really Here, walked out of it because it was BORING WANK in my imho. Went and watched John Grant instead (this was at Green Man festival) which was also boring wank but did have flashy lights and a delicious paella stall.

#28

I’ve heard of all her films listed just not seen any of them as none of them interested me apart from maybe You Were Never Really Here and that’s recent so not seen it (due to kid).

#29

Why does your kid hate Lynne Ramsay so much?

#30

Ha ha.

Also I guess also she’s not very divisive for this sort of thing. If you want lots of discussion you’ll need directors people disagree on.

Anyway, I’d guess she’s comfortably near a perfect 5 so.

#31

Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar are excellent.

I wasn’t particularly fussed with We Need To Talk About Kevin, and I haven’t see You Were Never Really Here.

It would be nice if she made more films, but it’s hard to know the reasons why she hasn’t. I’d hoped the success of WNTTAK and YWNRH might encourage more people to back further productions, but they’ve not really changed anything, it seems.

#32

she was meant to do Jane Got A Gun but it ended quite badly I think. Then the film got made and never existed

#33

I guess this didn’t happen either

It’s a shame as it sounds absolutely incredible, although obviously Star Trek II already did it :wink:

#34

Khan

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#35

Really rated Kevin and Never Really Here, both films had terrific lead performances and this atmosphere about them that was incredibly intense. Need to check out Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar.

#36

Yup same. Thought both were brilliant though

#37

Love her, some of her shorts are great too - I really enjoyed Swimmer which was made as part of a compilation of shorts celebrating British culture around the time of the London Olympics. I think I prefer thinking about her, and her style, to watching her films necessarily. Ratcatcher & Morvern Callar easily her best features, for me. She’s extremely idiosyncratic, I love her attention to everyday detail, and how this manifests itself.

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#38

Disagree with ^this. Would say that Lynne Ramsay has one of the most interesting and consistent (albeit annoyingly brief) filmographies out there. Would genuinely say that Morvern Callar, Ratcatcher and You Were Never Really Here are all 9/10 films. We Need To Talk About Kevin is the outlier, but even that is an 8/10.

I can’t remember, but how did she do in the DiS top 100 films/directors list?

Good thread :+1:

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#39

Yup :+1: It’s on YouTube if anyone is interested…

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#40

The behind the scenes stuff for that film sounds pretty wild. I really loved You Were Never Really Here and Morvern Callar, need to watch Ratcatcher and her short films (never really fancied WNTTAK). There’s a pretty good Talkhouse podcast interview between her and Eliza Hittman.

#41

Loved the bits in you were never really here where the violence is so muted, a little blip on the radar that just shows how numbed to the whole thing he really is. Really effecting film. Same with we need to talk about kevin really, the whole underlying tension becoming the real horror. It’s something all the best video games do too. But yeah dunno if 2 good films makes a 5/5 director.

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#42

I watched ‘Morvern Caller’ for the first time last night…loved it.

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