After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
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Prestige, contemporary, contemplative and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- badelfon TMDB · Feb 202610/10
This isn't a movie about some girl who needs to be in a relationship, or who just wants to party. This is a movie about grief. Trust me when I say that no two people in this world of eight billion will handle grief in exactly the same way. Even in one's lifetime, a single person can handle grief in many different ways, depending on the loss, the circumstances, where they are in their life when it happens. What Lynne Ramsay offers here is an absolutely brilliant portrait of one person's grief. Morvern wakes on Christmas morning to find her boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind a completed novel and instructions for its publication. What she does next - claiming the manuscript as her own, taking his money, disappearing to Spain with her friend - will strike some viewers as callous or opportunistic. But that reading misses everything Ramsay is doing. This is suicide loss, and Morvern is trying to survive it in the only ways she knows how, and without outside help. Everything in this film works in service of that grief. Ramsay's choice of shots, from the opening overhead view of Morvern lying next to her boyfriend's body to the vast ocean, the crowded village, the confusing m
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20235/10
Samantha Morton is the eponymous, bored, supermarket check out girl whose boyfriend commits suicide. She hides his body, takes his money - and a book that he had recently completed and along with her best friend, sets off on some travels. Initially around a wet and windy Scotland before heading to Spain for some fun. My issue with this rather dreary introspective is that neither she, nor her pal interested me in the slightest. Morton's performance is actually quite good; and her life of drugs, sex and lack of fulfilment may well have been the depiction of a labour of love from director Lynne Ramsey and co-author Liana Dognini, but as a piece of engaging cinema it fails completely. I don't doubt that there are many people for whom this is a manifestation of their psychological difficulties - an inability to form any kind of meaningful relationship - on any level - with anyone else; but it is presented in such a drab, pedestrian fashion that even some grand cinematography of the Balearic scenery does little to lift it from the doldrums.
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Cast
- Samantha MortonMorvern Callar
- Kathleen McDermottLanna Phimister
- Raife Patrick BurchellBoy in Room 1022
- Dan CadanDazzer
- Carolyn CalderTequila Sheila
- Steven CardwellWelcoming Courier
- Bryan DickGuy with Hat's Mate
- El CarretteGypsy Taxi Driver
- Andrew FlanniganOverdose
- Des HamiltonHim
Crew
- Lynne RamsayDirector
- Lynne RamsayWriter
- Liana DogniniWriter
- Alan WarnerNovel
- Alwin H. KüchlerDirector of Photography
- Lucia ZucchettiEditor
- Charles PattinsonProducer
- George FaberProducer
- Robyn SlovoProducer
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