In Lynne Ramsay's ('You Were Never Really Here') second feature based on the novel by Alan Warner, Samantha Morton stars as Morvern Callar, a young woman in a small port town in Scotland. She wakens Christmas morning to discover her boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving the manuscript of his unpublished novel behind. She erases his name, puts hers on the novel, and goes to Ibiza, where she sells it as her own work.
★★★★★ "A mesmeric, startling and sometimes baffling movie" - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
15
97 minutes
2002
Drama
United Kingdom
English
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