An unfinished version of the film premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in competition , where Ramsay won the Best Screenplay award and Phoenix won the award for Best Actor . The film was released by Studio Canal in the UK , on 9 March 2018 , and by Amazon Studios in the U.S. , where it began a limited release in Los Angeles and New York on 6 April 2018 , and a wide release on 20 April
2017 Cannes Film Festival
2017 Cannes Film Festival
You Were Never Really Here