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Dominican Rep. Morvern Callar
- Original title
- Morvern Callar
- Year
- 2002
- Running time
- 97 min.
- Country
United Kingdom- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Samantha Morton- Kathleen McDermott
- Linda McGuire
- Duncan McHardy
Dolly Wells- Dan Cadan
- Ruby Milton
- Jim Wilson
- Carolyn Calder
- Raife Patrick Burchell
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- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- Following her boyfriend's suicide, supermarket clerk Morvern Callar passes off his unpublished novel as her own. With the money her boyfriend left for his funeral, she leaves Scotland for Ibiza where she travels with her closest friend. The journey prompts a series of internal and external transformations for Morvern-- ones which bring to light her experiences of grief, memory, freedom, and desire.
- Awards
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2002: Cannes: Award of la juventud2002: San Sebastián: Award FIRPRESCI Best Director2002. British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Best Actress (Morton). 5 Nom.2002: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: New Generation Award
- Critics' reviews
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"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."
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"Ramsay reaches out boldly with a film that is as unsettling as it is minimalist."
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"(Morton's) character here is emotionally mute -- though Morvern speaks, she can't or won't reveal what's in her heart -- and her performance is brilliant from start to finish."
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"A gossamer tale about a heavy subject -- a passive creature who slowly emerges as the active author of her own life."
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"Morton deserves an Oscar nomination, but she is unlikely to get one. The movie is too dark and out of the mainstream to impress the conservative fogies who vote for the prizes."
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"'Morvern Callar' not only attempts to reveal an interior life, usually the province of novels, but also focuses on the interior life of a woman who refuses to open up to anyone."
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"What gives the movie real flesh and fantasy is the actress playing this part, the incandescent Morton."
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