A Cannes Film Festival regular, British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has five features under her belt and all of them have shored up on the Croisette (this also includes two shorts as well – in 1996, she was awarded the Jury’s Prize for Small Deaths and Gasman (1998). Ratcatcher premiered in the Un Certain Regard section back in 1999, Morvern Callar was showcased in the Directors’ Fortnight section in 2002 and then it’s been competition from that point on with We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), 2017’s You Were Never Really Here (read ★★★★ review) and now Die, My Love. Ramsay loves exploring trauma, guilt, and alienation — which might all be present here this time out.
The final film of today’s triple competition screenings bill, the ninth feature in comp is a book-to-film project toplined by Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattison plus we also have LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte. Production took place late last summer in Calgary — this is about a woman living in isolation, in a farmhouse on the Montana countryside – she has mental health issues as her marriage breaks up. Lynne Ramsay re-teamed with her We Need to Talk About Kevin cinematographer Seamus McGarvey on what will be one of the more sought after acquisitions titles at Cannes this year.
The last time Ramsay came to Cannes, You Were Never Really Here was such a wet print that it shored up towards the end of the screenings (it had no end credits) and she left with not one, but two prizes. Our 2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel anointed it with the second highest average score of 3.6. Part of the second wave of films to be selected for the competition, the third comp showcase of the day sank to the bottom of our charts – tying for last place with an average score of 2.6 (from 13 of our 20 critics).
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