Morvern

"A film like Morvern Callar, which starred Samantha Morton, for example, would apparently never be made now, but perhaps writers have always felt that."

Smiley starts a row over reluctance to commission original scripts 2011

When Morvern Callar discovers that her boyfriend has cut his own throat, she hardly reacts at all: "There was fright but I'd daydreamed how I'd be."

Psychos, Obsessives And Other Loons Mary Horlock 2011

In Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar and certainly We Need to Talk About Kevin, you have characters who are opposite of what we in America call "Mary Sues," idealized characters modeled after the author who have unbelievable virtue.

Dan Lybarger: From Glasgow to Glory: Director Lynne Ramsay on We Need to Talk About Kevin Dan Lybarger 2012

After a 10-year gap since her second feature, "Morvern Callar," premiered at the Director's Fortnight in 2002, the 40-year-old Scottish director Lynne Ramsay is back in town, joining ranks with the prize-winning major players of cinema.

The Other Cannes Film Festival Lanie Goodman 2011

We follow Morvern as she hides her boyfriend's corpse in the attic, empties his bank account and submits the novel he has been writing to a publisher—under her own name.

Psychos, Obsessives And Other Loons Mary Horlock 2011

Scottish director Lynne Ramsay's last film, "Morvern Callar," told the story of a woman who covers up her boyfriend's suicide, steals his money, travels to Spain and plagiarizes his writing.

The Short List: New Kathleen Edwards Album, 'Voyageur' 2012

This behavior is, of course, totally unacceptable, as is her eerily detached perspective on it all, but Morvern's spirit and her wry, poetic descriptions of the remote Scottish port where she lives and the characters who inhabit it "Ramraider," "Creeping Jesus" and "Red Hanna," to name but a few are so rich that we almost forget what she has done.

Psychos, Obsessives And Other Loons Mary Horlock 2011

Ramsay made two excellent films, Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar, the latter way back in 2002, then was attached for quite some time to film The Lovely Bones.

Casting Notes: John C. Reilly in Lynne Ramsay’s New Film; Daniel Brühl and Paz Vega in Castro’s Daughter | /Film 2010

"This story has been done before, and not just by the far more audacious Morvern Callar, which Red Road conjures through its bleak Glaswegian streets and dour central performance from Kate Dickie," writes a less enthusiastic Annie Frisbee at Zoom In Online.

GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Red Road. 2007

Also, on that "Guardian" list, "Morvern Callar" a British drama from 2002.

CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2009 2009