THE GUARDIAN - PHILIP FRENCH -- This review focuses more on the development of Lynne Ramsay as an auteur and how this is reflected in Morvern Callar. The review has much more knowledge of the book by which MC is based and reflects upon that also.
- These oblique, tight-lipped movies were largely seen from the point of view of deprived working-class children.
- It also has a more or less adult protagonist.
- Ramsay's impressionistic way with odd images like a curious silent exchange.
- What makes Morvern tick? How is she developing? Where does Ramsay think she's going? The idea of jail for embezzlement and disposing of a body does not trouble her. Rather, some sort of spiritual or existential journey is fuzzily suggested.
- She [Samantha Morton] has about her a magical quality that is simultaneously feral and sublime, and she gives meaning to, or becomes the meaning of, the film.