AS PART OF THIS MONTH'S ARTHOUSE CLASSICS TRIBUTE TO THE REMARKABLE  FILMMAKER LYNNE RAMSAY!

Samantha Morton (Minority Report and TV’s The Walking Dead) is mesmerizing and “gives the female performance of the year” (San Francisco Examiner) as the enigmatic Morvern Callar, in filmmaker Lynne Ramsay’s (Ratcatcher and We Need to Talk About Kevin) highly acclaimed and remarkably assured second feature, based on Alan Warner’s lauded debut novel.

When Morvern Callar wakes up one Christmas morning to discover her boyfriend dead by suicide, it’s the start of an unpredictable and unconventional process of self-transformation. Morvern’s form of grieving will be bewildering and shocking to most. She keeps her boyfriend’s death a secret. She passes off his just-finished novel as her own to publishers. She goes on holiday to Spain. Equal parts road movie and character study, Morvern Callar is as gripping and beautiful as it is dark and inscrutable.

The ever-present and extraordinary soundtrack—stemming from a mixtape made for Morvern by her boyfriend, and including songs by Can, the Velvet Underground, Aphex Twin, Stereolab, Nancy & Lee and more—is masterfully and audaciously woven into the narrative, acting as a voice for a protagonist who often chooses to remain silent. The film’s contrasting two main environments—cold, grey Scotland and arid, sunny southern Spain—are gorgeously captured by cinematographer Alwin Küchler (Ratcatcher and Steve Jobs).

"Ramsay has a photographers knack for capturing the blush and blur of glimpse in an intoxicated instant, constructing an emotional subjectivity, a shimmering use of focus and focal lengths that disorient our perceptions at just the right moment." - Ray Pride, Newcity

"Beautiful, crushing, and nihilistic as hell. Samantha Morton + Lynne Ramsay = heaven and I want them to work on another project together." - Lindsay Pugh, Woman in Revolt

"A mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first frame to the last." - Glenn Kenny, Premiere Magazine