Interviews

Interview: Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival

Published on March 18, 2019

Ranked at the top of my best films of 2018 list (still unpublished), with her fourth feature, Lynne Ramsay attained “film godz” status with the masterwork You Were Never Really Here. Hot off what was a quartet of Indie Spirit noms, Marrakech marked the end of my journalistic journey with the film having been floored by it back in Cannes 2017, having had a sit down with Lynne at Sundance in January, and then tying the bow back in December in Morocco. A bit under the weather but nonetheless in great spirits, as part of a round table convo we got to know a bit more about what could possibly be her next feature (an eco-thriller with time travel?), her special bond with Joaquin, and seeing that her fellow juror member was James Gray, I was wondering if they did any anecdotal comparisons between the two. Here is the audio:

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).