
Following her boyfriend's suicide, supermarket clerk Morvern Callar passes off his unpublished novel as her own. With the money her boyfriend left for his funeral, she leaves Scotland for Ibiza where she travels with her closest friend. The journey prompts a series of internal and external transformations for Morvern - ones which bring to light her experiences of grief, memory, freedom, and desire.... (Full plot summary below)
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Following her boyfriend's suicide, supermarket clerk Morvern Callar passes off his unpublished novel as her own. With the money her boyfriend left for his funeral, she leaves Scotland for Ibiza where she travels with her closest friend. The journey prompts a series of internal and external transformations for Morvern - ones which bring to light her experiences of grief, memory, freedom, and desire.
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| Looking CloserJeffrey OverstreetSamantha Morton's performance recalls Emily Watson's work in Breaking the Waves -- you can't take your eyes off of her. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMatt BaileyMorvern Callar is assured and confidently-made, even as the emotions of the title character seem brittle and crystalline. |
| Premiere MagazineGlenn KennyA mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first frame to the last. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. Anderson[Morton is] completely unguarded, and every moment is painfully, beautifully genuine. |
| culturevulture.netArthur LazereFails in making this character understandable, in getting under her skin, in exploring motivation...Well before the end, the film grows as dull as its characters, about whose fate it is hard to care. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarWith her broad, thinker's forehead, imp's crooked grin and large, deer-in-the-headlights eyes, Morton at first suggests hidden depths within Morvern. But as the film plays on, the character comes off as increasingly shallow and dull. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonAs Morvern, Morton is disconcertingly enigmatic, often bordering on catatonic. But she carries the movie effortlessly. And even though we're on the outside looking in, she carries us along, too. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternI think the answer is right there in the film, but less visible to American viewers because we are less class-conscious than the filmmakers. |
| Salon.comStephanie ZacharekA 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. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldThis odd, poetic road movie, spiked by jolts of pop music, pretty much takes place in Morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress, and to her inventive director, that the journey is such a mesmerizing one. |