May 27Cannes Competition has drawn to a close on a powerful note, with Lynn Ramsay’s singular You Were Never Really Here. Sharp and compact, at 85 minutes, it’s dazzling show of force from the Scottish auteur, even if the noir narrative peg on which she hangs her vision boils over by the end. Along with Ruben Ostlund’s The Square, You Were Never Really Here is the most exciting cinema to showcase at Cannes; the former may be too long, but the latter leaves us asking for more.This Travis Bickle-tinged tale of a hammer-wielding hitman (Joaquin Phoenix) who becomes entangled in a larger conspiracy must be in with a chance at the Palme D’Or. That’s of course exciting in itself, but of added significance in that it would mark only the second time in the festival’s 70-year history that the prize has gone to a woman, and the first outright win (Jane Campion’s The Piano shared the prize with Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine, after which the rules were changed). With The Square, Loveless, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer and BPM (Beats Per Minute), You Were Never Really Here made an impact in a year which couldn’t help but disappoint…