Tag: Lynne Ramsay

Let the great Willow Maclay explain Lynne Ramsay to you:

“In the cinema of Lynne Ramsay, everyday life turns unfamiliar through the shockwaves of horror, grief, and death. Ramsay, with her astute inclination toward expressive visual detail, emphasizes the fallibility of human nature by reckoning with one of its core concerns: mortality. For her, there is no way to escape its looming rot. In her movies, the lead characters, often women, deal with catastrophic events — the death of a loved one, the drowning of a best friend, the aftermath of a school shooting — in their own strange, complicated ways. These people don’t have the answers to life’s greatest challenges, and Ramsay doesn’t expect them to unravel, by her movies’ ends, the profound mysteries of existence. Instead, she focuses on the internal processes required of those trying to move forward in the wake of horror. In her work, the scars from our past continually influence who we are today.”

 

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