Highly focused direction and a hypnotic performance by Samantha Morton pull off the tricky balancing act of "Morvern Callar," a basically plotless, psychological mood piece centered on a young woman ...

Watching a Lynne Ramsay movie means marinating in bleakness. Cheer is in short supply. Abiding empathy for besieged souls aside, Ramsay mires her stories in gloom (at best) and doom (at worst), ...

Lynne Ramsay’s 2002 film Morvern Callar, an adaptation of the novel by Scottish author Alan Warner that’s now streaming on Amazon Prime, opens with unsettling silence as the title character awakens to ...

Morvern Callar gets at you through your eardrums. Its gifted young director, Lynne Ramsay, has described her second feature as a “headtrip,” and, for better or worse, the term sticks. There’s great, ...

The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) announced the nominations for its fifth annual awards on Wednesday. "The pre-selection committee were overwhelmed by the high standard of new talent that has ...

Even within the strange and wonderful world of contemporary Scottish novels, Alan Warner’s 1995 “Morvern Callar” was a revelation. Written in the first person, in language that’s partly Scottish ...

What is a Morvern Callar? A shy water bird sometimes seen (or only heard) in the Scottish isles? Some kind of intrusive fundraiser on your phone system? Or the soothsayer in a new quietist religion ...

Christmas Day, Scotland. Morvern Callar returns to her apartment to find her boyfriend sprawled, face-down, in the doorway between their kitchen and living space. Spatters of blood trace a short line ...

Morvern Callar Directed by Lynne Ramsay Written by Lynne Ramsay and Liana Dognini Starring Samantha Morton and Kathleen McDermott Classification: 14A Rating: *** Not many directors have the courage to ...