Morvern Callar

Morvern Callar Synopsis

Morvern Callar is the second film from director Lynne Ramsay, the acclaimed director of Ratcatcher. Shot in March/April 2001 in Scotland and Spain the film stars Oscar nominee Samantha Morton (Sweet and Lowdown).

Morvern Callar is a 21 year-old supermarket worker from a small port town in the west of Scotland. Morvern believes that life is something that you get on with as best you can with what you’ve got. One morning Morvern finds that what she’s got is a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor. But she doesn’t tell anyone – an extraordinary choice that propels her on a journey to the south of Spain and transforms her life.

Press

“Surreal” - Time Magazine
“Mesmerising” - OK Magazine
“The coolest film of the year” - Sight and Sound
“The best British film of the year” - Harpers and Queens
“Morton gives an astonishing, mesmerising performance” - Telegraph Magazine
“Morton has an etched star quality: a screen presence that won't let you take your eyes off her” - The Guardian
“Morvern Callar is the part Sam Morton was born to play, just as Lynne Ramsay, was seemingly born to direct it ... a trip of a film” - Dazed and Confused

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