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You Were Never Really Here: Watch a chilling clip from the new Joaquin Phoenix thriller - exclusive

'They told me you were brutal'

Christopher Hooton
Wednesday 07 March 2018 06:18 EST
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Joaquin Phoenix plays former FBI agent hired to recover kidnapped child in You Were Never Really Here - clip

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Today we bring you a clip from a pivotal scene in We Need To Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay's brutal new thriller, You Were Never Really Here.

The film, scored by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, sees a hulking Joaquin Phoenix play a contract killer on the brink of suicide who gets hounded by a major crime ring after a hit goes wrong.

In the clip, Phoenix's protagonist, Joe, offers his services to a man whose child has been kidnapped.

"[They] told me you were brutal," the man said, to which he replies coldly: "I can be."

An excerpt from The Independent's 4-star review:

'This is a stunning, gut-punch of a film though, technically adept and masterfully acted it thumps others of the genre into mush, showing that a Taken-style story needn't be redundant of art.'

You Were Never Really Here is in cinemas from Friday 9 March.

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