Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

london777 This is a mystery movie. Morvern Callar's boyfriend has just committed suicide at the start of the film. No reason is initially given as to why a handsome and talented young writer should do this, and the remainder of the movie is dedicated to explaining why he has done so, using the "show, not tell" method. After the first hour in Morvern's company, I was already losing the will to live. I perked up a bit when there was the hope that she might be gored to death during the running of the bulls, but this came to nothing. If I felt that way after an hour or so, no wonder her boyfriend topped himself. He had to put up with the retarded sociopath 24/7.Morton is a competent actress, but she has appeared in some real dross. This one takes the cake.To be fair, the musical soundtrack is not at the same level of competence as the rest of the film. It is worse.

Tad Pole . . . as in THE SECRET OF ROAN INNISH, or BREAKING WAVES, or that one about the mermaid. In fact, this offering by Lynne Ramsay is not as compelling or interesting as her later effort, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. Instead, this is more of a piece of fluff, along the lines of "How to make the best of things when your finance commits suicide Christmas eve." This set-up is pretty preposterous to begin with, and the idea that a plagiarist could select an unpublished author's word processing doodles, send them off to a major publisher, and be inked to an advance of about $150,000--no questions asked--has just as much credence as the idea that a roomful of monkeys and typewriters eventually would produce HAMLET. However, from the haphazard nature of these two scripts by Ramsay, it's not hard to see why SHE would be one of the few to subscribe to this absurd Shakespeare's monkey theory. Though the gifted Samantha Morton is not able to save Ramsay to the extent that the talented Tilda Swinton does in KEVIN, she does enough to make this story watchable. (What's Ramsay's secret to attracting this sort of acting talent to her project, anyway? Tasty muffins?)

jakemccoy My wife and I watch a film every night with no distractions, and mostly artsy films that require thought. I have tons of patience for films that are slow to blossom. My wife has double the attention span that I do. All that being said-- this film is just plain empty and BORING! It went nowhere. Never blossomed. It started fairly strong with a promising plot...then she bakes cookies...goes to Spain....she sulks, she stares....the credits roll. Uneven, full of holes, false starts & dead ends. We FF'd through several extended sequences of her just staring off into space. Artificial depth was implied when she played with the mud and cried. Zzzz...... It's like a beautifully shot chick-flick that's pretending to be deep or artsy. You never get to know nor understand Morvern at all. About halfway through you just don't care anymore. We just wanted to see at least one of the plot lines develop. Don't waste your time on this. I'm shocked it scores so high.

futures-1 Samantha Morton stars as a "morally ambiguous" young Scottish woman who seems to come into and go from her life and surroundings without the least bit of effect from others or towards herself. I would almost label this film an Existential effort, but the main character, "Morvern Callar", DOES occasionally seem to connect with someone or something… seem… Samantha Morton does a wonderful job creating a character that deserves no attention, yet keeps you watching. Think of this story as one expressing Distances – Detachments – Disabled Psyches. Her reactions seem consistently inappropriate – ill timed for the moment. Her socialization gene was stunted at birth. Life, for better and worse, is little more than water off her back. She's not being mean, she's not being ironic, she's not being moody. She's just not being. (PS: If you have trouble with Scottish accents, prepare to concentrate.)