LYNNE RAMSAY

Lynne Ramsay is one of the most exacting visual stylists in contemporary British cinema — a director who has spent a career, active since 1999, building images before she builds plot. Working slowly a...

Active 1999 – Present

Selected 3 films

Origin Scottish

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Ratcatcher (1999), directed by Lynne Ramsay — Bayley Film Club poster

A community stuck in limbo, rendered through pure, devastating feeling. Ramsay's debut forces you to focus on what her characters feel rather than what happens to them.

Morvern Callar (2002), directed by Lynne Ramsay — Bayley Film Club poster

Shocking rather than moving — Ramsay undiluted, but not her most rewarding work. A young woman turns her boyfriend's death into a strange, soulless kind of freedom.