YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2017)

Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Produced by Rebecca O’Brien, Rosa Attab and James Wilson

You Were Never Really Here (released as A Beautiful Day in France and Germany) is a 2017 psychological action thriller film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay. Based on the 2013 novella of the same name by Jonathan Ames, it stars Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alex Manette, John Doman, and Judith Roberts. In the film, a traumatized mercenary named Joe (Phoenix) is hired by a politician to find and rescue his daughter who has been kidnapped by a human trafficking network, which Joe is instructed to destroy by any violent means.