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Lynne Ramsay is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Sound British born on 5 december 1969 at Glasgow (United-kingdom)
Lynne Ramsay (born 5 December 1969) is a Scottish film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer best known for the feature films Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar and We Need to Talk about Kevin. She is married to Rory Stewart Kinnear (March 2002 – present), a musician, not to be confused with the actor Rory Kinnear. Lynne Ramsay's work bears a powerful personal imprint. Her films are marked by a fascination with children and young people and the recurring, unresolvable themes of grief, guilt and death and its aftermath. They are low on dialogue and explicit story exposition, and instead use images, vivid details, music and sound design to create their unsettling worlds. In April 2013 she was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
En 1999, Lynne Ramsay réalise son premier long métrage, Ratcatcher, qui est présenté au Festival de Cannes dans la section Un Certain Regard. Bien accueilli par la critique, ce film remporte plusieurs prix dont le Carl Foreman Award (meilleur espoir britannique) à la 53e cérémonie des BAFTA Awards et le Sutherland Trophy au Festival du film de Londres.
En 2002, Lynne Ramsay réalise son deuxième long métrage Morvern Callar qui est présenté au Festival de Cannes. Elle y remporte le prix C.I.C.A.E. et le Prix de la jeunesse du film étranger.
Envisagée dans un premier temps pour réaliser l'adaptation du roman La Nostalgie de l'ange d'Alice Sebold, elle doit quitter le projet en 2004. Son projet suivant est l'adaptation du roman de Lionel Shriver We Need to Talk About Kevin, lauréat du Prix Orange pour la fiction en 2005.
En 2007, elle est classée 12e du classement des 40 meilleurs réalisateurs actuels selon The Guardian. En 2011, elle présente en compétition au 64e Festival de Cannes pour son troisième long-métrage; We Need to Talk about Kevin.
En 2013, son court-métrage Swimmer est sélectionné à Cannes dans la sélection de la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. Elle est, la même année, membre du jury du 66e Festival de Cannes, présidé par Steven Spielberg.
En 2016, il est annoncé qu'elle travaille sur l'adaptation du recueil de nouvelles de Jonathan Ames,You Were Never Really Here, paru en 2013. Joaquin Phoenix y joue le rôle d'un vétéran de guerre hanté par son passé. Lynne Ramsay présente le film en compétition officielle au 70e Festival de Cannes en 2017 et elle y remporte le Prix du scénario tandis que Joaquin Phoenix remporte le prix d'interprétation masculine.
En 2019 elle est présidente du jury du 38e Festival international du film d'Istanbul, succédant ainsi à João Pedro Rodrigues.
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Lynne Ramsay
Lynne Ramsay (born 5 December 1969) is a Scottish film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer best known for the feature films Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar and We Need to Talk about Kevin. She is married to Rory Stewart Kinnear (March 2002 – present), a musician, not to be confused with the actor Rory Kinnear. Lynne Ramsay's work bears a powerful personal imprint. Her films are marked by a fascination with children and young people and the recurring, unresolvable themes of grief, guilt and death and its aftermath. They are low on dialogue and explicit story exposition, and instead use images, vivid details, music and sound design to create their unsettling worlds. In April 2013 she was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Biography
Née à Glasgow le 5 décembre 1969, elle est diplômée de la National Film and Television School en 1995. Son court métrage de fin d'études, Small Deaths, remporte le Prix du Jury à Cannes en 1996. Son deuxième court métrage, Kill the Day, remporte le Prix Spécial du Jury au Festival international du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand en 1997, et son troisième court métrage, Gasman, remporte le Prix du meilleur court métrage au BAFTA Scotland en 1998 et de nouveau le Prix du Jury à Cannes.En 1999, Lynne Ramsay réalise son premier long métrage, Ratcatcher, qui est présenté au Festival de Cannes dans la section Un Certain Regard. Bien accueilli par la critique, ce film remporte plusieurs prix dont le Carl Foreman Award (meilleur espoir britannique) à la 53e cérémonie des BAFTA Awards et le Sutherland Trophy au Festival du film de Londres.
En 2002, Lynne Ramsay réalise son deuxième long métrage Morvern Callar qui est présenté au Festival de Cannes. Elle y remporte le prix C.I.C.A.E. et le Prix de la jeunesse du film étranger.
Envisagée dans un premier temps pour réaliser l'adaptation du roman La Nostalgie de l'ange d'Alice Sebold, elle doit quitter le projet en 2004. Son projet suivant est l'adaptation du roman de Lionel Shriver We Need to Talk About Kevin, lauréat du Prix Orange pour la fiction en 2005.
En 2007, elle est classée 12e du classement des 40 meilleurs réalisateurs actuels selon The Guardian. En 2011, elle présente en compétition au 64e Festival de Cannes pour son troisième long-métrage; We Need to Talk about Kevin.
En 2013, son court-métrage Swimmer est sélectionné à Cannes dans la sélection de la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. Elle est, la même année, membre du jury du 66e Festival de Cannes, présidé par Steven Spielberg.
En 2016, il est annoncé qu'elle travaille sur l'adaptation du recueil de nouvelles de Jonathan Ames,You Were Never Really Here, paru en 2013. Joaquin Phoenix y joue le rôle d'un vétéran de guerre hanté par son passé. Lynne Ramsay présente le film en compétition officielle au 70e Festival de Cannes en 2017 et elle y remporte le Prix du scénario tandis que Joaquin Phoenix remporte le prix d'interprétation masculine.
En 2019 elle est présidente du jury du 38e Festival international du film d'Istanbul, succédant ainsi à João Pedro Rodrigues.
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Filmography of Lynne Ramsay (6 films)
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You Were Never Really Here (2017)
, 1h25Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Alessandro Nivola, Judith Anna Roberts, John Doman, Kate Easton, Frank Pando
Rating66%
Joe, un ancien marine devenu tueur à gages, est engagé pour retrouver Nina, la petite fille d'un sénateur, enlevée et retenue par un réseau de prostitution. Mais il va très vite se retrouver malgré lui dans une spirale de violence.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
, 1h52Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about school violence
Actors John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, James Chen, Erin Darke
Rating75%
The story is told out of order, in flashbacks and mostly short scenes. Kevin Khatchadourian (Ezra Miller) is in prison after committing a massacre at his high school. His mother, Eva (Swinton), a once-successful travel writer, lives alone in a run-down house and works in a mall travel agency in a town near the prison, where she visits Kevin. She looks back at her memories of him growing up as she tries to cope with the anger and hostility of her neighbors, who know she is Kevin's mother. Her memories are shown in flashbacks.
Morvern Callar (2002)
, 1h37Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Bryan Dick, Dolly Wells
Rating67%
Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton) is a young woman in a small port town in Scotland. She wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving a suicide note, mix tape and the manuscript of his unpublished novel behind. His novel is dedicated to her and she decides to erase his name and puts her own name on the novel and sends it to the publisher recommended by her boyfriend. Instead of arranging a funeral with the money on his account, as requested by him, she cuts his body up and buries it in the mountains. With the money she then escapes her work stacking fruit in the groceries section of the local supermarket and goes to Almería, Costa del Sol, with her best friend Lanna (Kathleen McDermott). As they go out and party she feels she's in a different mood than her and leaves her, also to be able to secretly meet the publishers who haven't hesitated to come meet her in Spain. She plays the role of a writer and sells the novel for £100,000. Back in Scotland she tries to convince Lanna to come with her to the big world, but in Spain she has met a guy from Leeds who plans to visit her. Morvern collects her suitcase and goes to the train station.
Ratcatcher (1999)
, 1h34Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Teen movie
Actors Tommy Flanagan, James (Jimmy) Watson, Rory McCann
Rating74%
The film opens focused upon James' friend Ryan Quinn, being forced to put on his wellington boots to go to visit his father, who is in jail. He'd rather play with James instead and runs off while his mother is not looking. Ryan meets James at the canal and during some rough-house play he is drowned, clearly with James bearing much of the blame for not having raised the alarm. James believes his inaction has gone unnoticed.
Scriptwriter
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
, 1h25Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Alessandro Nivola, Judith Anna Roberts, John Doman, Kate Easton, Frank Pando
Rating66%
Joe, un ancien marine devenu tueur à gages, est engagé pour retrouver Nina, la petite fille d'un sénateur, enlevée et retenue par un réseau de prostitution. Mais il va très vite se retrouver malgré lui dans une spirale de violence.
Jane Got a Gun (2015)
, 1h37Directed by Gavin O'Connor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Rodrigo Santoro, Ewan McGregor, Noah Emmerich, Boyd Holbrook
Roles Writer
Rating58%
Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman) has built a new life with her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond (Noah Emmerich) after being tormented by the Bishop Boys gang. She finds herself in the gang’s crosshairs once again when Ham stumbles home riddled with bullets after dueling with the Boys and their relentless leader, Colin (Ewan McGregor). With the vengeful crew hot on Ham's trail, Jane has nowhere to turn but to her former fiancé Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton) for help in defending her family against certain death. Haunted by old memories, Jane’s past meets the present in a heart-stopping battle for survival.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
, 1h52Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about school violence
Actors John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, James Chen, Erin Darke
Rating75%
The story is told out of order, in flashbacks and mostly short scenes. Kevin Khatchadourian (Ezra Miller) is in prison after committing a massacre at his high school. His mother, Eva (Swinton), a once-successful travel writer, lives alone in a run-down house and works in a mall travel agency in a town near the prison, where she visits Kevin. She looks back at her memories of him growing up as she tries to cope with the anger and hostility of her neighbors, who know she is Kevin's mother. Her memories are shown in flashbacks.
Morvern Callar (2002)
, 1h37Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Bryan Dick, Dolly Wells
Rating67%
Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton) is a young woman in a small port town in Scotland. She wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving a suicide note, mix tape and the manuscript of his unpublished novel behind. His novel is dedicated to her and she decides to erase his name and puts her own name on the novel and sends it to the publisher recommended by her boyfriend. Instead of arranging a funeral with the money on his account, as requested by him, she cuts his body up and buries it in the mountains. With the money she then escapes her work stacking fruit in the groceries section of the local supermarket and goes to Almería, Costa del Sol, with her best friend Lanna (Kathleen McDermott). As they go out and party she feels she's in a different mood than her and leaves her, also to be able to secretly meet the publishers who haven't hesitated to come meet her in Spain. She plays the role of a writer and sells the novel for £100,000. Back in Scotland she tries to convince Lanna to come with her to the big world, but in Spain she has met a guy from Leeds who plans to visit her. Morvern collects her suitcase and goes to the train station.
Ratcatcher (1999)
, 1h34Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Teen movie
Actors Tommy Flanagan, James (Jimmy) Watson, Rory McCann
Roles Writer
Rating74%
The film opens focused upon James' friend Ryan Quinn, being forced to put on his wellington boots to go to visit his father, who is in jail. He'd rather play with James instead and runs off while his mother is not looking. Ryan meets James at the canal and during some rough-house play he is drowned, clearly with James bearing much of the blame for not having raised the alarm. James believes his inaction has gone unnoticed.
Production
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
, 1h25Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Alessandro Nivola, Judith Anna Roberts, John Doman, Kate Easton, Frank Pando
Roles Producer
Rating66%
Joe, un ancien marine devenu tueur à gages, est engagé pour retrouver Nina, la petite fille d'un sénateur, enlevée et retenue par un réseau de prostitution. Mais il va très vite se retrouver malgré lui dans une spirale de violence.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
, 1h52Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about school violence
Actors John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, James Chen, Erin Darke
Roles Executive Producer
Rating75%
The story is told out of order, in flashbacks and mostly short scenes. Kevin Khatchadourian (Ezra Miller) is in prison after committing a massacre at his high school. His mother, Eva (Swinton), a once-successful travel writer, lives alone in a run-down house and works in a mall travel agency in a town near the prison, where she visits Kevin. She looks back at her memories of him growing up as she tries to cope with the anger and hostility of her neighbors, who know she is Kevin's mother. Her memories are shown in flashbacks.