You Were Never Really Here
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered—leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening. From TMDB
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60 of 170 · most liked firstPutting together a film festival about whether people are here or not Here (2024) Wish You Were Here (1987) I'm Still Here (2010) Are You Here (2013) I'm Still Here (2024) I'm Not Here (2017) I'm No Longer Here (2019) You Were Never Really Here (2017)
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie and You Were Never Really Here last week and it was a real one-two punch of guys I didn't expect to have massive arms suddenly revealing massive arms
neutral · AI labelView post →excavated my old essay on Lynne Ramsay's masterpiece You Were Never Really Here
positive · AI labelView post →In YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, when Joe shoots a guy and sings with him/holds his hand as he's dying.
neutral · AI labelView post →New Lynne Ramsey this week means it’s time to remind everyone that You Were Never Really Here deeply fuckin rips
positive · AI labelView post →You Were Never Really Here (2017) written and directed by Lynne Ramsay stars Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alex Manette, John Doman, and Judith Roberts. Based on the 2013 novella of the same name by Jonathan Ames.
neutral · AI labelView post →Films I can watch over and over again - I’ll start with four - Radio On, Lucky, You Were Never Really Here, Dead Man’s Shoes
positive · AI labelView post →You Were Never Really Here (2017) written and directed by Lynne Ramsay stars Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alex Manette, John Doman and Judith Roberts. Based on the 2013 novella of the same name by Jonathan Ames.
neutral · AI labelView post →we have an movie called I'M STILL HERE and a Dylan movie called A COMPLETE UNKNOWN when the last big Dylan movie was I'M NOT THERE (2007) none of this accounts for YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2017), which isn't relevant but goes so fucking hard we just ... things need better titles
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neutral · AI labelView post →You Were Never Really Here rules, few other movies are doing the hairpin turns between meathead “this kicks ass” and high minded “this is so sad” tones that this film pulls off
positive · AI labelView post →Every motherfucker in the Files needs an ex-spouse who's determined to make them pay, because the fucking authorities don't seem to be doing anything about it. At this point I think it's going to come down to a bunch of Joaquin Phoenix is You Were Never Really Here types and a whole bag of hammers.
neutral · AI labelView post →Die, My Love is basically You Were Never Really Here for postpartum psychosis. You have not seen Jennifer Lawrence like this. #Cannes2025
neutral · AI labelView post →The last 4 movies I watched... Inception Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World You Were Never Really Here Secrets & Lies #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/Iqj
neutral · AI labelView post →YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (Ramsay, 2017)
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetsGetAcquainted #MusicChallenge Day 12: Song from a movie Lynne Ramsay "living room film fest" this past weekend… A new favorite emerged… 🎶I've Never Been To Me - Charlene www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpu... 🎬You Were Never Really Here, 2018 ……Spoiler Alert: Actual scene ↴ youtu.be/gecooDKV0KU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →You Were Never Really Here (2017) is incredibly well made and incredibly dark (like all of Lynne Ramsay's films).
positive · AI labelView post →You Were Never Really Here is so fun because it's basically a Qanon style fever dream lol. It reminds of me of The Kill List in some ways.
neutral · AI labelView post →if you want a disturbing, poetic look at a neurodivergent life with PTSD, "You Were Never Really Here" is that, and one of my favorite movies of this century. something like the love child of Terrence Malick and John Boorman
positive · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness #MovieChallenge Day 22: by a favorite director Lynne Ramsay You Were Never Really Here, 2017
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Was inspired by the fellas at Blank Check to reevaluate YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, disappointed by the new TOXIE (but not by Bennington alum Peter Dinklage’s performance) & dazzled by both Ben Wishaw recounting his DAY and Jessie Buckley going BEAST-mode
neutral · AI labelView post →These days, I’ve been thinking a lot about Lynne Ramsay’s masterful YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, in which Joaquin Phoenix rescues a child from the sex traffickers that kidnapped her and beats up & kills several disgusting & despicable men in the process. A+ movie. A 2017 favorite.
positive · AI labelView post →10 21st century movies I like: Computer Chess Nickel Boys Janet Planet Bright Star The Act of Killing Toni Erdmann Roma If Beale Street Could Talk You Were Never Really Here A Hidden Life
neutral · AI labelView post →Next up in my all of 2025 interview series is with the fantastic Jonathan Ames. Author of books such as YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (made into a film by Lynne Ramsay.) He also wrote the fantastic HAPPY DOLL series @jonathanames.bsky.social Click on the link to read mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →For @bwdr.bsky.social, I wrote about how the luminously expressionist neo-noir YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE depicts, "via overwhelming cinesensation, the lives of broken people, the cycles of trauma ensnaring them, and the empathy required to set them free." www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2018/09/20/y...
neutral · AI labelView post →If we were all Joaquin Phoenix' character from YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE then heteronormativity would be absolutely fucked
neutral · AI labelView post →Lynne Ramsay’s YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
neutral · AI labelView post →#NW You Were Never Really Here (2017) starring Joaquin Phoenix 🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →the “So where exactly are you?” trilogy: I’M NOT HERE (2017) I’M NOT THERE (2007) YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2017)
neutral · AI labelView post →You Were Never Really Here is one of my top 10 movies of all time if you were curious if I ever watch movies with budgets
positive · AI labelView post →I'm a big fan of slow. For example: You Were Never Really Here by Lynne Ramsey Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai by Jim Jarmusch Pretty much all of Twin Peaks: The Return. A three minute scene of a guy sweeping a barroom floor to the tune of Green Onions? Count me in, dude
positive · AI labelView post →Broke: Eyes Wide Shut was about Epstein. Woke: You Were Never Really Here was about Epstein. Bespoke: What Have They Done to Your Daughters was about Epstein before Epstein was even a thing,
neutral · AI labelView post →Joaquin Phoenix conferring with writer/director Lynne Ramsay on the set of YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2018) Ramsay was BOTD in 1969
neutral · AI labelView post →Name 2 films or shows with the same director. Ratcatcher (1999) & You Were Never Really Here (2017) - (Lynne Ramsay)
neutral · AI labelView post →Last blurb to share, this time from one of my favorite noir writers working today: Jonathan Ames. If you don't know his HBO show "Bored to Death," his novella YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, or his series of PI novels featuring Happy Doll, you need to correct that now.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatch of You Were Never Really Here tonight. The plot hinges on powerful, wealthy politicians including a state governor trafficking young girls. Why must it be only movies like this that get closer to being The News.
positive · AI labelView post →Yes! You Were Never Really Here bsky.app/profile/ikir...
neutral · AI labelView post →Lynne Ramsay Gasman (1998) Morvern Callar (2002) You Were Never Really Here (2017)
neutral · AI labelView post →"Joaquin Phoenix has been in so many great movies like The Master, Her, and You Were Never Really Here" Some guy:
neutral · AI labelView post →Can’t believe someone is making a Q-Anon catering movie when YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE already exists
positive · AI labelView post →the teen and dog are asleep, the cat is yelling at me to goto bed. time to watch “You Were Never Really Here”
neutral · AI labelView post →A triple screening of I’m Still Here (2024), I’m Not There (2007) and You Were Never Really Here (2015).
neutral · AI labelView post →YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE by Jonathan Ames
neutral · AI labelView post →A nice early morning matinee My ★★★★ review of You Were Never Really Here boxd.it/dVN9p5
positive · AI labelView post →right now SÝN is playing THE SUBSTANCE straight after a kid's fantasy movie)and Sjónvarp Síminn is playing YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE. RÚV meanwhile is playing THE LOST KING, some tax dodge film nonsense about Richard III. Icelandic TV is being incredibly schizo this evening....
neutral · AI labelView post →10 more because i was agonizing You Were Never Really Here The Killing of a Sacred Deer Kill List Antichrist Alien Moon The Descent Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon Locke The Cremator
neutral · AI labelView post →You Were Never Really Here. I thought it was brilliant but also I never want to see it again.
neutral · AI labelView post →Everybody, your homework for the weekend is to watch this training video that will help us deal with the issues revealed in the Epstein Files. It's called You Were Never Really Here, and it actually has really high production values for a training vid.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking real hard rn about Phoenix winning an Oscar for JOKER and not YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
positive · AI labelView post →The Nice Guys, The Rover, Kill List, You Were Never Really Here.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lynne Ramsay's YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE "decentres genre and reduces the conspiracy-and-corruption plotting to a murky background of toxic masculinity in which Joe has long been drowning." 6.30pm at Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn for Fantastic Film Festival Australia projectedfigures.com/2018/03/10/y...
neutral · AI labelView post →YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (Dir. Lynne Ramsay.)
neutral · AI labelView post →I Watched: You Were Never Really Here (2017) Lynne Ramsey gets Hollywood money to make a thriller about a veteran rescuing young girls from sex trafficking and it's pretty close to great art, this is Sound of Freedom if it was made by a great director and not insane conspiracy theorists. #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →You Were Never Really Here is a masterpiece.
positive · AI labelView post →34. You Were Never Really Here (2017) dir. Lynne Ramsay #filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Spell a film you love with the first letters of other films you love. Birds, The It’s Such a Beautiful Day Ran Domestic Violence 2 Stop Making Sense Only Yesterday From the Life of the Marionettes Portrait of a Lady on Fire Rumble Fish Elephant Sitting Still, An You Were Never Really Here ( 1/4
neutral · AI labelView post →Back in 2018, I watched “You Were Never Really Here”. Enjoyed it, and reflected on it from time to time, but now every day I realize it was 100% correct and based on real events
positive · AI labelView post →His PTA work is incredible but YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE is a stunner as well.
positive · AI labelView post →fuck taxi driver You Were Never Really Here is where the sauce is at
positive · AI labelView post →I think a lot about the time I went to go see YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE in theaters on a date with a girl, who walked out of the movie without a word about 2/3rd of the way through. I decided to stay and finish it because I was just so compelled.
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