Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton) finds her dead boyfriend James Gillespie's body after his suicide. Instead of dealing with the death, she goes drinking and partying. She's a supermarket clerk in a Scottish seaside town. She takes his manuscript and changes the author name to her own. After being paid by a publisher, she cuts up his body dumping it in the bogs, and decides to go vacationing with her friend Lanna.
This story should be horrifying. The movie does it like a light indie. It has long quiet scenes. This juxtaposition can be quite compelling for some but for me, it gets a bit infuriating. Samantha Morton is able to maintain the tension despite the movie's slow pace. Something that could help is an opening section with Morvern and James together. It's hard to say the death matters to the audience when the relationship is never shown. This is definitely a different kind of indie.
This story should be horrifying. The movie does it like a light indie. It has long quiet scenes. This juxtaposition can be quite compelling for some but for me, it gets a bit infuriating. Samantha Morton is able to maintain the tension despite the movie's slow pace. Something that could help is an opening section with Morvern and James together. It's hard to say the death matters to the audience when the relationship is never shown. This is definitely a different kind of indie.