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Morvern Callar

2002

Lynne Ramsay

Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire, Duncan McHardy ...

6.3

545

Drama Following her boyfriend's suicide, supermarket clerk Morvern Callar passes off his unpublished novel as her own.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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Desson Thomson The 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."
		Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"Ramsay reaches out boldly with a film that is as unsettling as it is minimalist."
		Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"(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."
		Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer	"A gossamer tale about a heavy subject -- a passive creature who slowly emerges as the active author of her own life."
		V.A. Musetto New York Post	"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."
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"'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."
		Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"What gives the movie real flesh and fantasy is the actress playing this part, the incandescent Morton."

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