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After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
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Morvern Callar
Cast
Samantha Morton Kathleen McDermott Raife Patrick Burchell Dan Cadan Carolyn Calder Steven Cardwell Bryan Dick El Carrette Andrew Flannigan Des Hamilton Mette Karlsvik Andrew Knowles Duncan McHardy Ruby Milton Paul Popplewell Mischa Richter Vito Rocco Danny Schofield Matthew Townend Andrew Townley Yolanda Vazquez Dolly Wells James Wilson Linda McGuire Andy Hazel
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Alternative Titles
O Romance de Morvern Callar, Ellopott siker, Le voyage de Morvern Callar, Морверн Каллар, Morverna Kallara, 모번 켈러의 여행, 默文·卡拉
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France
Cannes Film Festival
16 Oct 2002
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Chicago International Film Festival
Theatrical limited
20 Dec 2002
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USAR
Theatrical
01 Nov 2002
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UK15
05 Mar 2003
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France
Digital
12 Oct 2002
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Ireland15
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France
19 May 2002
- Premiere Cannes Film Festival
05 Mar 2003
- Theatrical
Ireland
12 Oct 2002
- Digital15
UK
01 Nov 2002
- Theatrical15
USA
16 Oct 2002
- Premiere Chicago International Film Festival
20 Dec 2002
- Theatrical limitedR
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"Sorry Morvern,
Don't try to understand.
It just felt like the right thing to do."The first time that I watched this movie, I did not like it.
To be honest, I was, how can I put this... I was bored.
Which is strange, because Lynne Ramsay is one of my favorites.Well, I've just finished re-watching it,
And I loved every second of it.A year between viewings and a more seasoned appreciation for non-narrative cinema was all it took for me to realize that this film is a masterpiece.
Random string of initial thoughts:
*SLIGHT SPOILERS BELOW BUT NOTHING PLOT RELATED*
- It's one of the most technically brilliant and aesthetically appealing films I have ever seen.
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top 5 all time breakup movie. Samantha Morton’s face is one of the greatest gifts a director could have
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I'm not sure what I can say here that isn't stunningly obvious. Samantha Morton is incredible as Morvern. Lynne Ramsay's eye for composition and ear for audio gives us a view into the internal life of a character that few filmmakers can achieve. The film is a plotless but poetic look at one somewhat unremarkable person in an incredibly bizarre situation for a couple weeks. Relentlessly existentially bleak but somehow beautiful and emotionally resonant.
I wish I knew more about aesthetics to highlight why this film is incredibly special. Somewhere between The World and Spring Breakers is Morvern Callar. I don't "get" it, but I love it.
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Morvern Callar has one of the bleakest cold opens of any film. We see the titular woman (played by Samantha Morton), as she wakes up with her boyfriend dead from suicide on the floor and a computer screen that says "READ ME." The note instructs her to "be brave" and to send his novel to various publishers he's listed. That's the plot portion of the opening, before we even get there we lay with Morvern on the floor, her fingers in her lover's hair, the lights flashing one-two. In a wider angle we see that she's lying on the floor with his dead body, the white lights flashing, alternatively, from the Christmas tree in their shared flat. Morvern then goes…
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I am in a curious position of having read several reviews on this site for this film over the last few months, and thus some small idea of what it was about and like before hand. (This is my favorite of those reviews, though the five stars on this one inspired me to watchlist it and its presence on that feminist list on Flavorwire drew me to watching it now).
So, of course, these are the lenses through which I watched it. Morvern moves quietly through loud noises and bright lights, in a ghostly state, almost, as her friend seeks more immediate and carnal delights. Much is made elsewhere of the boyfriend's letter to Morvern, what it suggests about him.…
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Being young means you are tethering on the edge until you slip from view and start drifting away towards the unknown. All you do is float purposelessly until someone or something touches you, waking you up just so you realize how lonely you are or have been, but then since you're awake, you understand that you have nothing to lose. The fact that you still exist and have made it out alive is enough. Lynne Ramsay can find the most beautiful thing in the ugliest situation.
Dedicated to the one I love.
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Phaedra. A light in the dark. A body and mind in stasis swept along in perpetuum mobile. Would make for quite an evening paired with Under the Skin. Perhaps even after Ms. 45, right between the two. Toss Spring Breakers in there, too, because... why not? (I think I feel a list forming here.) The nearly constant diegetic soundtrack makes it breathe. Samantha Morton treads a fine line with grace and quiet anguish.
Inside we churn with despair, but where are we going? "Somewhere beautiful."
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Ramsay's minimalist scope is truly hypnotic, applying a flamboyant approach to loss, and a near-to-poetic approach to death. This incredibly talented and introspective female filmmaker constructs a character study difficult to dissect regarding the main character's intentions, and still not so difficult to empathize with. It has a delicate nature of its own, like a young soul discovering the world and its wonders when given the opportunity instead of drowning oneself into the existentialist state of "crying over spilt milk".
Featuring one of my favorite soundtracks in cinema, Morvern Callar (I love that name) offers a refreshing take on what can be seen as a personal adventure of self-discovery, and about not rejecting unexpected opportunities regardless of where they were…
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Music for you. 🎧
Morvern Callar wakes on a silent Christmas morning to the lights twinkling on and off the tree, her lifeless boyfriends body on the floor right beside it. She lays next to him and slowly runs her hand down his arm to maybe become one again for the very last time, she looks up to find the suicide note on her computer screen, it says… READ ME. She tells her friends and colleagues that he left her, skipped town maybe… that he’s never coming back.
That opening sequence is gut-wrenching and what follows is one of the most accurate depictions of grief ever portrayed on screen.
What I love about Morvern Callar is we’re shown a woman…
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