Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017) by Olivierpiel — 10 Apr 2018

Well-thought out cinematography that depicts violence and brutal impulses both in a more visceral and realistic fashion than most "movies", focusing on its random, dehumanizing, kinetic force where bodies look like mere lumps of flesh through out-of-focus, half-cut shots as well as the more typical technique of "showing less to make you imagine more". Phoenix is obviously the actor that fits the bill since his role in "the Master" where he displayed the same hypnotic charisma and, in that film, even has the look of an old wounded lion with his shaggy mane.

Maybe what prevents this movie from being truly great is finding a soul or a more solid script. Or maybe it is actually its point: Soulless nihilism...