Befuddling, and yet also entrancing and memorable in a way that continued to eat at me hours after the screening. Probably the Martel film which feels most familiar with David Lynch, both in its oneiric qualities and its attempt to portray the shifting similarities between the comically absurd and the absurdly terrifying (there's also probably no better filmmakers working today when it comes to their use of sound). But while the works of Lynch contain much in the way of…

The protagonist in every Lynne Ramsay film is a ghost, a person who has been affected and broken by past trauma in a way that renders them at a distant remove from everything happening around them. This is no different in You Were Never Really Here, a story about a hired gun named Joe who is assigned a task of rescuing a girl from a sex trafficking ring. There's a worry that this may feel like overly worn and familiar…