6.6
After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
Samantha Morton
Morvern Callar
Kathleen McDermott
Lanna Phimister
Raife Patrick Burchell
Boy in Room 1022
Dan Cadan
Dazzer
Carolyn Calder
Tequila Sheila
Steven Cardwell
Welcoming Courier
Bryan Dick
Guy with Hat's Mate
El Carrette
Gypsy Taxi Driver
Andrew Flannigan
Overdose
Des Hamilton
Him
Mette Karlsvik
Sick Girl / Bikini Girl
Andrew Knowles
Green Boy #1
Duncan McHardy
Red Hanna
Ruby Milton
Couris Jean
Paul Popplewell
Guy with Hat
Mischa Richter
Rick, the American Courier
Vito Rocco
Swimming Pool Courier
Danny Schofield
Dave
Matthew Townend
Green Boy #2
Andrew Townley
Creeping Jesus
Yolanda Vazquez
Spanish Mother
Dolly Wells
Susan
James Wilson
Tom Boddington
Linda McGuire
Vanessa (uncredited)
Andy Hazel
Dancer in Club (uncredited)
Director, Screenplay
Lynne Ramsay
Novel
Alan Warner
Screenplay
Liana Dognini
September 3, 2023
5
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.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00