Morvern Callar

Director: Lynne Ramsay

2002 / 97min / 35mm

Join Fireflies Press and Metrograph on Sunday, September 27 for the NYC launch of author and critic Anwen Crawford’s Morvern Callar. Her lyrical monograph on Lynne Ramsay’s film of the same name is the latest title in Fireflies Press’ 10-book Decadent Editions series, each spotlighting a milestone of contemporary cinema. Following the screening of Ramsay’s film, introduced by Fireflies Press co-publisher Annabel Brady-Brown, books will be available for purchase in the Lobby.

A sensory odyssey packed into an intimate story of love, death, and theft, Lynne Ramsay’s second feature stays close to its impossibly distant title character, played with a transfixing inscrutability by Samantha Morton. Passing off the work of her suicided boyfriend as her own, Morvern gets a book deal and a ticket out of gray Scotland to sunny seaside Spain for herself and her best friend (Kathleen McDermott). A film of mysterious gestures, a hieroglyph that begs to be decoded while withholding the key.

Distributor: Swank Motion Pictures

35mm print courtesy of BFI National Archive