Synopsis
After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
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Cast
- Samantha MortonMorvern Callar
- Kathleen McDermottLanna Phimister
- Raife Patrick BurchellBoy in Room 1022
- Dan CadanDazzer
- Carolyn CalderTequila Sheila
- Steven CardwellWelcoming Courier
- Bryan DickGuy with Hat's Mate
- El CarretteGypsy Taxi Driver
- Andrew FlanniganOverdose
- Des HamiltonHim
Recommendations
- 90
Washington Post
As Morvern, Morton is disconcertingly enigmatic, often bordering on catatonic. But she carries the movie effortlessly. And even though we're on the outside looking in, she carries us along, too. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Ramsay reaches out boldly with a film that is as unsettling as it is minimalist. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
Ramsay's second feature is an extraordinary adaptation of fellow-Scot Alan Warner's acclaimed novel. - 80
L.A. Weekly
A strange and beautiful film. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Ramsay is experimental, unconventional, and forever reaching at the gorgeousness in grief and despair. Her film moves slow as molasses, slow as paint drying -– and all the better to see the colors and the complexities. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Morton acts up a storm, and Ramsay continues her rise as England's hottest young female filmmaker. - 75
Portland Oregonian
In Morvern Callar, the subject matter may be morbid and unappealing, but the director handles it with a visual poetry and an eye for hidden beauty that marks a filmmaker of the first order. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
With little dialogue to assist her -- just the strains of that wonderfully organic music -- she still manages to suggest the internal struggle, and to slowly reveal a fierce toughness that flies in the face of conventional morality.
