Morvern Callar (2002)
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
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The second half of the movie tumbles with Maud down a spiral of female solitude and hallucinatory madness that invokes cinematic precedents as varied as Ingmar Bergman’s Persona , Roman Polanski’s Repulsion , and Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar .
In its most piercing earthbound moments, “Saint Maud” even evokes the impressionistic human poetry of another shattered-woman study, Lynne Ramsay’s “Morvern Callar,” and not just because Clark has some of the young Samantha Morton’s moony, haunted ingenuousness.
It’s a performance that shares DNA with Samantha Morton in Morvern Callar and Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion : bold, uncompromising and vivid.
Moreover, she projects an unquenchable sensuality that evokes young Samantha Morton in films like Carine Adler’s Under the Skin (1997) and Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar, movies in which young women, pumped up full of emotion and hormones, also have a great time making bad choices.
As it is, Ms. Wells owes an incredible debt of gratitude to Lynne Ramsay’s vastly superior “Morvern Callar,” another Scottish movie about a young woman, haunted by her memories of an emotionally mysterious man, on an ill-advised cheap beach vacation.
I'm a huge fan of director Lynne Ramsay and have been eagerly waiting almost a decade for her follow up to her first two amazing, unique films: Ratcatcher (1999) and Morvern Callar (2002).
Scottish writer/director Lynne Ramsey has been acclaimed for her desolate, visually stylized, European-art house sensibility, as demonstrated in “Ratcatcher” and “Morvern Callar,” as she makes repeated use of the color red, not only in the opening tomato-throwing festival sequence in Spain but also in the paint that neighborhood vandals throw on Eva’s house and the soup cans Eva hides behind in the grocery store.
With this impressionistic and often daringly enigmatic thriller taken from a short novel by Jonathan Ames, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) is back with a vengeance.
Joe is the agonized center of "You Were Never Really Here," directed by Lynne Ramsay ("Ratcatcher," " Morvern Callar ," "We Need To Talk About Kevin").
…doesn’t always work, certainly not with the same heft of Morvern Callar or You Were Never Really Here…
Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar, You Were Never Really Here) directs…
…all of her features going back to her 2002 sophomore film and reigning masterpiece Morvern Callar have been constructed around characters we're invited to observe but not invited to understand…
Part of a lineage of Ramsay leads who refuse to ingratiate themselves – see also: Samantha Morton in Morvern Callar, Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lawrence goes to some pretty dark places in her full-bodied rejection of domestic expectations.
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There’s even a touch of Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar to Laura’s story, as Glazer asks the audience to look through the eyes of a mostly silent misfit, muddling her way through Scotland.
Stories in which people pass others’ work as their own tend to be darker, whether dramatic a la Morvern Callar or as black comedy like in World’s Greatest Dad .