Lynne Ramsay

Trauma rendered as texture rather than exposition. Ramsay builds from fragments — sound, skin, water, objects held too close — and withholds the connective tissue that would let a viewer file the event away. Her protagonists are usually implicated in something they cannot articulate.

Signature

• Elliptical editing: the aftermath shown, the act elided.
• Extreme close-ups and tactile sound design over dialogue.
• Violence felt rather than staged.
• Protagonists whose interiority is inaccessible even to themselves.

Distinguish from Shares Psychological Horror with genre filmmakers but sits firmly at arthouse — there is no release, and the dread is grief rather than threat.