"Scottish director Lynne Ramsay's influence can be felt throughout British cinema today blending an immediate, sometimes painful naturalism with the impressionistic qualities of photography. Watching her social-realist drama Ratcatcher, set in an impoverished burgh in Glasgow during the 1973 refuse strikes, or Morvern Callar, about a woman fleeing her boyfriend's suicide from Scotland to Spain, you can track the subjective expressions of style and theme that would take root in the imagination of British filmmakers, including recent success stories like Aftersun and Urchin."
"She was attached to two films that were ultimately shot by other directors, The Lovely Bones and the troubled Jane Got a Gun, while many of her other announced projects languished in development hell. Do not pin your hopes on seeing her version of Stephen King's The Girls Who Loved Tom Gordon or Moby Dick in space, and word on her two ominous Arctic-set films, Margaret Atwood's Stone Mattress and the Joaquin Phoenix/Rooney Mara-starring Polaris, is frustratingly quiet."
Lynne Ramsay has directed five feature films across a quarter-century and exerts significant influence on contemporary British cinema through a blend of painful naturalism and photographic impressionism. Her early films Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar foreground subjective, social-realist perspectives rooted in Glasgow and intimate personal crises. Industry setbacks hindered her career: she lost attachments to The Lovely Bones and Jane Got a Gun and saw many projects stall in development. Recent work, Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, depicts a mother's descent into postpartum psychosis and returns to Ramsay's disorienting, confessional visual style. Several announced Arctic-set projects remain unresolved.
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