Morvern Callar (2001)
Country: GB/CAN
Technical: col 98m
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott
Synopsis:
Waking up to discover that her lover has committed suicide, leaving his novel to her on the computer, Morvern lurches about in a semi-aware state of bereaved apathy before spending the money left for funeral expenses on a Spanish holiday and publishing the novel in her own name.
Review:
But then isn't that what he would have wanted anyway? One's opinion of the central character depends largely on one's response to this question, but played as she is as so numbed by his death that she doesn't really come alive until going in country on her Costa del Sol holiday, we have no choice but to see it as her one way of making something of her life, especially since the alternative is so depressing (supermarket shelf stacking, house parties, dingy flats and wintry north-of-the-border gloom). A film notable for its tight identification with the protagonist's world view as much as for its lack of a moral centre.
Country: GB/CAN
Technical: col 98m
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott
Synopsis:
Waking up to discover that her lover has committed suicide, leaving his novel to her on the computer, Morvern lurches about in a semi-aware state of bereaved apathy before spending the money left for funeral expenses on a Spanish holiday and publishing the novel in her own name.
Review:
But then isn't that what he would have wanted anyway? One's opinion of the central character depends largely on one's response to this question, but played as she is as so numbed by his death that she doesn't really come alive until going in country on her Costa del Sol holiday, we have no choice but to see it as her one way of making something of her life, especially since the alternative is so depressing (supermarket shelf stacking, house parties, dingy flats and wintry north-of-the-border gloom). A film notable for its tight identification with the protagonist's world view as much as for its lack of a moral centre.
Country: GB/CAN
Technical: col 98m
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott
Synopsis:
Waking up to discover that her lover has committed suicide, leaving his novel to her on the computer, Morvern lurches about in a semi-aware state of bereaved apathy before spending the money left for funeral expenses on a Spanish holiday and publishing the novel in her own name.
Review:
But then isn't that what he would have wanted anyway? One's opinion of the central character depends largely on one's response to this question, but played as she is as so numbed by his death that she doesn't really come alive until going in country on her Costa del Sol holiday, we have no choice but to see it as her one way of making something of her life, especially since the alternative is so depressing (supermarket shelf stacking, house parties, dingy flats and wintry north-of-the-border gloom). A film notable for its tight identification with the protagonist's world view as much as for its lack of a moral centre.