Morvern Callar
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Date: January 01, 2002 to December 31, 2002
Dates Note: 2002
Country of Origin:
Canada
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United Kingdom
Place of Origin: United Kingdom, Canada
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Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: the novel by Alan Warner
Additional Info:
35mm collection print courtesy of the Packard Humanities Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive
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The Films of Lynne RamsayDescription:
Following the suicide of her writer boyfriend, Morvern Callar (brilliantly embodied by Samantha Morton) meets up with her bestie for a night of revelry in wet, wintry Glasgow. Soon after, she signs her name to his manuscript, and thanks to the departed’s unused funeral funds, the girls decamp for nonstop continental clubbing in sunny Spain. The reasons for Callar’s unconventional reaction to the traumatic event remain compellingly mysterious throughout. The question of grief or grift is immaterial. The world that Lynne Ramsay and Morton create is the real thing. “Pure punk existentialism” (Elvis Mitchell, New York Times).
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