You Were Never Really Here

You Were Never Really Here
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLynne Ramsay
Screenplay byLynne Ramsay
Based onYou Were Never Really Here
by Jonathan Ames
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyThomas Townend
Edited byJoe Bini
Music byJonny Greenwood
Production
companies
Distributed byStudioCanal (United Kingdom)
Amazon Studios (United States)
SND Films (France)[1]
Release dates
  • 27 May 2017 (2017-05-27) (Cannes)
  • 8 November 2017 (2017-11-08) (France)
  • 9 March 2018 (2018-03-09) (United Kingdom)
  • 6 April 2018 (2018-04-06) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes[2]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • France
LanguageEnglish
Box office$9.4 million[3]

You Were Never Really Here (released as A Beautiful Day in France and Germany) is a 2017 neo-noir crime psychological thriller film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay.[4] Based on the 2013 novella of the same name by Jonathan Ames, it stars Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alex Manette, John Doman, and Judith Roberts. In the film, a traumatized mercenary named Joe (Phoenix) is hired by a politician to find and rescue his daughter who has been kidnapped by a human trafficking network, which Joe is instructed to destroy by any violent means. The film was co-produced between the United Kingdom and France.

An early cut premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in competition,[5][6] where Ramsay won the award for Best Screenplay and Phoenix the award for Best Actor.[7] The film was released by StudioCanal in the UK, on 9 March 2018, and by Amazon Studios in the U.S., where it began a limited release in Los Angeles and New York on 6 April 2018, and a wide release on 20 April.[8] It received critical acclaim, with Ramsay's direction and Phoenix's performance garnering high praise.

  1. ^ "You Were Never Really Here". Box Office Mojo. IMDb.
  2. ^ "A Beautiful Day". Centre National de la Cinématographie. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  3. ^ "You Were Never Really Here". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Flick picks: 'You Were Never Really Here' is a brutal, moody neo-noir". www.bizjournals.com. 6 April 2018.
  5. ^ "The 2017 Official Selection". Cannes Film Festival. 13 April 2017. Archived from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  6. ^ Winfrey, Graham (13 April 2017). "2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup: Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, 'Twin Peaks' and More". IndieWire. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  7. ^ Debruge, Peter (28 May 2017). "2017 Cannes Film Festival Award Winners Announced". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  8. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (2 October 2017). "Joaquin Phoenix Noir 'You Were Never Really Here' Gets February Release". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 2 October 2017.