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You Were Never Really Here
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This Cannes 2017 winner for Best Screenplay (Lynne Ramsay) and Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) follows the agitated, fragmented inner journey of Joe, a kind of vigilante for hire who finds missing people. Joe (Phoenix) searches for the daughter of a local politician who is involved in a child trafficking ring. But as depicted by Ramsay’s staccato editing style, Joe does not think in linear fashion. His mind is a tangle of memories and flash-forwards and what-ifs, all rendered in short, sharp, shock cuts. This is a bold piece of storytelling, with a dream-like feel that evokes its hellish, predominantly nocturnal world very compellingly. Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood provides the threatening electronic score which breathlessly pursues our troubled hero. You may remember director Lynne Ramsay from her brilliant ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ (2011). UK 2017 Lynne Ramsay 85m
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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
The world’s most beautiful woman was also the secret inventor of communication systems (Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth), but her arresting looks stood in the way of her being given the credit she deserved – until now. If this story was pitched for a fictional film, it would be laughed out of the room as being too far-fetched… but Lamarr was no ordinary screen siren. When Nazi U-Boats torpedo a ship carrying 83 school children during WWII, Lamarr, after shooting her scenes on set, works on a secret radio system that will allow the Allies to torpedo U-Boats with deadly accuracy. Her sketches remain ideas until a chance encounter with an eccentric composer enables her to transform them into useful technology that would change history. Recognition (and compensation) proved elusive in Lamarr’s lifetime, but in this marvellous documentary, a brilliant woman finally gets her due. USA 2017 Alexandra Dean 90m
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