Lynne Ramsay creates an atmosphere of being in daze throughout the film, which is wholly appropriate and effective, since the lead character is herself caught in a confused, dreamlike state of mind after her boyfriend commits suicide. It's clear that for some time afterwards she simply doesn't know how to deal with it, and therefore doesn't -- she numbly walks through her daily routines as if nothing has happened, before eventually, impulsively, disposing of his body and assuming authorship of the novel he finished just before his death. She then travels to Spain on a road of self-discovery with some money he left behind for her.

This is an engaging, beautifully photographed film, but I found myself thinking about it very little after it was over. In the end, it's a disappointing follow-up to Ratcatcher. - Donald Brown

The following is an excerpt from a Salon.com review by Stephanie Zacharek:
I would have thought "Morvern Callar" an unfilmable book, or at least one that would be easy to botch. But Lynne Ramsay, director of "Ratcatcher"...has turned it into a work of astonishing delicacy and force, a tone poem about the Frankenstein jolts that all of us, at one time or another, have to live through. (Ramsay co-wrote the screenplay with Liana Dognini.) "Morvern Callar" is a small movie and not a particularly detailed one; it drifts by on mood and nuance and suggestion. But the picture grows richer and more mournful as it moves along -- its sense of rhythm always pushes forward, like the tide forcing its way up the shore inch by inch. It has no formal dramatic structure whatsoever, and yet what's there is so wholly felt that it seems almost classical -- a sustained fugue that catches us up gently and carries us to a place we never would have expected.

Region 2 - PAL

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Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen anamorphic - 1.82:1

Edition Details:
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DVD Release Date: July 21st, 2003
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 - Donald Brown