You Were Never Really Here (2017 Lynne Ramsay & scr)

It's been a while. She was set to direct Brian Duffield's script Jane Got a Gun but failed to turn up on day one of filming - she had realised the producers wanted a different film to her's. There were legals, her marriage broke up and she went to live in Santorini - met a chef there from Belarus ('over a roll up') and had a daughter.. and wrote this. (Thanks Miranda Sawyer, published by The Guardian.)

You have to pay attention to the beginning of Lynne's films - you are presented with beautiful, elusive images and sounds which are in fact tiny pieces of a jigsaw puzzle - We Need To Talk About Kevin went the same way. Both were based on novels, this one Jonathan Ames (who also created the HBO series Bored to Death), Kevin by Lionel Shriver.

Joaquin Phoenix is the vet (I know - the third one in two days; it's like buses) who bashes paedos - the scene shot by surveillance cameras is funny. He rescues Ekaterina Samsonov who is then kidnapped again in weird circumstances. Judith Anna Roberts is his mother.

Full of unforgettable images and moments and accompanied by an incredibly weird score (we seem to be getting a few of these at the moment) by Jonny Greenwood. Thomas Townend shot it, Joe Bini (Kevin, American Honey) edited and Paul Davies again was responsible for the sound design.

Definitely was getting notes of Taxi Driver

At 1.25, it's also nice and short.