You Were Never Really Here - Release The Files

About this episode

The episode explores the themes of familial ties in Lynne Ramsay's filmography, focusing on 'You Were Never Really Here'.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Reference Degustation where, every February, we explore common and recurring themes of a writer/director's filmography. Month long celebration of rough scrappy familial ties of Lynne Ramsay. Complete missions with precision but struggle to connect the dots to the bigger picture. Release the files and burn it all to the ground with You Were Never Really Here this week. If you'd like to watch along, we plan on covering the below... Ratcatcher (1999) We Need to...

People in this episode

Host: For Your Reference

Topics covered

• film analysis
• director focus
• family themes
• Lynne Ramsay
• filmography exploration

Keywords

• Lynne Ramsay
• You Were Never Really Here
• Ratcatcher
• film analysis
• family ties

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: You Were Never Really Here, Ratcatcher

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