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M0RVERN CALLAR Send This Review to a Friend
There's been buzz about this film directed by Lynne Ramsay, but there isn't really that much to the story, which is about a woman finding herself under very odd circumstances. It does have the advantage of intriguing Samantha Morton in the title role, but she doesn't have a lot to do even though the camera is on her most of the time.
Morton plays Morvern Callar, who finds her boyfriend dead. He has committed suicide. How should she dispose of the body? What he has left behind is a novel in his computer. Morvern, badly in need of some new direction in her drab life, appropriates the book and submits it to a London publisher as her own work. The best moment is when we see her obliterate his name and replace it with her own. A new author is born.
The saga that follows in the screenplay that Ramsay co-authored with Liana Dognini, based on a novel by Alan Warner, involves her leaving Scotland on a trip to Spain with her dead lover's credit cards in tow, negotiating a book deal and clashing with her best friend Lanna (Kathleen McDermott), who is much more lively and outgoing. But they do have a strong bond that's important to Morvern.
There you basically have it--a kind of road movie of a woman liberated by a strange circumstance and a stroke of enough nerve to become an imposter. We watch her and we watch her. A Cowboy Pictures release.
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