Morvern Callar
Morvern Callar
R | 20 December 2002 (USA)
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After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Flyerplesys

Perfectly adorable

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Micransix

Crappy film

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Janis

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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tsimshotsui

there's something incredibly satisfying and refreshing about seeing a female lead character be unabashedly flawed. Morvern Callar is faced with something huge, and is told to Be Brave. And that's what she tries to do — but not necessarily with choices we would agree with or find right. She makes incredibly selfish, sometimes greedy choices that, if I'm being honest, I would have entertained if faced with the situation. The film is great with exploring what happens if we made the choices we are tempted to make but decide against.

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london777

This is a mystery movie. Morvern Callar's boyfriend has just committed suicide at the start of the film. No reason is initially given as to why a handsome and talented young writer should do this, and the remainder of the movie is dedicated to explaining why he has done so, using the "show, not tell" method. After the first hour in Morvern's company, I was already losing the will to live. I perked up a bit when there was the hope that she might be gored to death during the running of the bulls, but this came to nothing. If I felt that way after an hour or so, no wonder her boyfriend topped himself. He had to put up with the retarded sociopath 24/7.Morton is a competent actress, but she has appeared in some real dross. This one takes the cake.To be fair, the musical soundtrack is not at the same level of competence as the rest of the film. It is worse.

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Tad Pole

. . . as in THE SECRET OF ROAN INNISH, or BREAKING WAVES, or that one about the mermaid. In fact, this offering by Lynne Ramsay is not as compelling or interesting as her later effort, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. Instead, this is more of a piece of fluff, along the lines of "How to make the best of things when your finance commits suicide Christmas eve." This set-up is pretty preposterous to begin with, and the idea that a plagiarist could select an unpublished author's word processing doodles, send them off to a major publisher, and be inked to an advance of about $150,000--no questions asked--has just as much credence as the idea that a roomful of monkeys and typewriters eventually would produce HAMLET. However, from the haphazard nature of these two scripts by Ramsay, it's not hard to see why SHE would be one of the few to subscribe to this absurd Shakespeare's monkey theory. Though the gifted Samantha Morton is not able to save Ramsay to the extent that the talented Tilda Swinton does in KEVIN, she does enough to make this story watchable. (What's Ramsay's secret to attracting this sort of acting talent to her project, anyway? Tasty muffins?)

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David Lowther

A dark film, one of the darkest i've ever seen, yet almost comic with its playfulness between the morbidity of the plot and the use of music and camera usage. The soundtrack is also brilliant: you would expect a film with such a dark plot line to stick with the usual musics associated with its theme, however the use of unnaturally cheery music is excellent, and hilarious at some points. this film is an all round work of art, though perhaps a little slow moving for some people's tastes. i however thoroughly enjoyed it, and hope to watch many more films like it. one of the films strongest points has to be its use of camera: the angles, shots and movements are amazing in points, not to mention the scenery used is beautiful. the ironies of life in this film are excellent, and i believe it is an excellent representation of modern life for the working class, and how disturbed a human mind can become.

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