ROGER EBERT REVIEW--Very much descriptive and then develops into a more personal opinion. Quotes:
- Morvern is played by Samantha Morton, who like Isabelle Huppert has a face that can convey enormous emotions without visibly changing.
- If they were truly a couple with a future and had been together for some time, isn't it reasonable to expect that she would no longer be holding onto that job?
- When a young person who is not dying or in unbearable crisis commits suicide, it is often an act of selfish unforgivable egotism.
- By signing her name to his novel, Morvern is sending a message beyond the grave: I will not clean up this mess and finish your life for you .
- People like Morvern Callar do not lead lives that lend themselves to beginnings, middles and ends. She is on hold.
- She [Samantha Morton] is able to embody a universe of wounded privacy.
- These stories all seem to explore similar dread lifescapes. Why she knows it so well we cannot guess, but she does.