About this episode
Bella Freud interviews award-winning director Lynne Ramsay about her films and inspirations.
Lynne Ramsay is an award-winning director and writer. Born and raised in Glasgow, Lynne made the short film Little Deaths during her time at the National Film and Television School, which won the 1996 Prix du Jury at Cannes. In 1998, she wrote and directed the short film Gasman, starring her brother James, which won the BAFTA short film award and another Prix du Jury. Her feature film debut was the 1999 film Ratcatcher, which won numerous awards, follows a young boy growing up in working-class Glasgow during the bin workers strike in the 1970s. She has since written and directed four feature films, often adapting books such as Morvern Callar, which starred a young Samantha Morton as a woman grieving her boyfriend’s suicide at a party resort in Spain, We Need To Talk About Kevin, and You Were Never Really Here. Her latest film, Die My Love, is produced by Martin Scorsese and stars Jennifer Lawrence as a new mother suffering post-partum psychosis, whilst her husband played by Robert Pattinson struggles to cope with her illness. Lynnw Ramsay studied photography at Napier College Edinburgh, and much of her film work has been inspired by photographers including Robert Frank, Richard…
People in this episode
Host: Bella Freud
Guest: Lynne Ramsay
Topics covered
- film direction
- Glasgow Intelligentsia
- post-partum psychosis
- Martin Scorsese
- cinematography
- adaptation
Keywords
- Lynne Ramsay
- Bella Freud
- film
- Glasgow
- Martin Scorsese
- post-partum psychosis
- cinematography
- adaptation
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Little Deaths, Gasman, Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar, We Need To Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here, Die My Love
Places: Glasgow
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