Lynne Ramsay, Small Deaths (1996) Ramsay has been on a streak since she entered into feature filmmaking. With her critically exalted 1999 debut Ratcatcher and, more recently, her acclaimed horror-drama We Need to Talk About Kevin, she has boldly announced herself as one of those rare artists able to bend the cinema to the shape of her own extraordinary vision. Immersive and at times overwhelming, Ramsays films abound with uncommon imagery arresting for its remarkable use of texture, composition, color, music and sound. Grounding Ramsays sensorially rich cinema are the similar protagonists of her films, each recovering with a strange assurance from a traumatic, violent death in which they are also directly, although enigmatically, implicated. Her film school thesis short, Small Deaths, set the stage for this success, winning the Prix du Jury at Cannes. Small Deaths is a collection of three key moments in a girls youth, offering a playful yet sophisticated experimentation with the non-traditional composition and expanded soundscapes that would become signatures of her features.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:55:26 +0000