Morvern Callar
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Year Released: 2002
Rating: 0.5
Dead young novelist leaves his magnum opus for his girlfriend (Samantha Morton) who mourns over his death by sawing him up into pieces, stealing the text by putting her name on it, ditching her girlfriend in the middle of nowhere in Spain and doing lots of drugs while engaging in anonymous sex. Yes, well, since it's clearly not a film about the pain of loss - that is, I cannot conceive of someone dealing with loss by becoming a deplorable waste of a human being - and it doesn't have much of a storyline, that can only mean that Ramsay's film is a character study ... of which we learn nothing about her main character, aside from having to endure the unpleasantness of watching her behave badly for ninety minutes. After seeing Ramsay's grimy first film and shorts, I thought she was some kind of humanist, but the only good thing about this is its soundtrack (which includes Boards of Canada's "Everything You Do is a Balloon") and nice photography.
