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House of Psychotic Women: Morvern Callar

Wed, Sept 28 / 7pm
Thu, Sept 29 / 8:45pm
Sat, Oct 1 / 7pm
Sun, Oct 2 / 5:30pm
Dir. Lynne Ramsay
2002, Canada / UK, 97 min

When her boyfriend commits suicide, unambitious Glasgow clerk Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton) invents various stories to explain his absence. She then finds a novel he completed before killing himself and sends it to several publishing houses as her own work. When the book is bought, Morvern uses her first payment to take a Spanish vacation with her best friend, Lana (Kathleen McDermott), which turns out to be a surprising emotional journey.


To celebrate the 10th anniversary and the latest expanded edition of Kier-La Janisse’s House of Psychotic Women, Cinematheque presents a series of films exploring crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness and apocalyptic hysteria.

Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 and William F. White International.

   

Reviews

This odd, poetic road movie, spiked by jolts of pop music, pretty much takes place in Morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress, and to her inventive director, that the journey is such a mesmerizing one.
- Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
We watch Samantha Morton so closely, with such fascination, because she is able to embody a universe of wounded privacy.
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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