THE NEW YORK TIMES - ELVIS MITCHELL -- This review is once again very descriptive, however it talks much about own opinion, its reception as a film and the novel.
- The wonderfully lush ''Morvern Callar'' is pure punk existentialism.
- Ms. Morton provides the charge that gives Morvern life, a performance that is all heart and intuition.
- But as she lies on the floor next to her boyfriend's corpse, she might as well be dead herself.
- Ms. Ramsay's direction has a moody beauty: the movie is painted in the tones of an Ibiza all-nighter, rimmed with the anxiety of being awake and alert when the sun comes up.
- This minimalist film is slightly hobbled by its minimal plot; it's the crucial difference between a movie with moments of greatness and a great movie.
- The question is how does one find drama in a movie with the theme of neediness and nothing else to give it heft? It's a question that ''Morvern Callar'' comes gratifyingly close to answering.