Morvern Callar

18.03.03, 15:30
hej
czy ktos moze widzial 'Morvern Callar' w rezyserii Lynne Ramsay? Film na
podstawie powiesci Alana Warnera pod tym samym tytulem. Przytocze fragment
recenzji z Empire:




Morvern Callar
Nov 1 2002


Starring: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Paul Popplewell, Bryan Dick

Director: Lynne Ramsay

Screen Writer: Liana Dognini, Lynne Ramsay



((After finding her novelist boyfriend has committed suicide over Christmas,
shop worker Morvern Callar cleans up the mess, empties his bank account,
puts her name to his finished novel and tells everyone he has left her. On
holiday in Spain with her best friend Lanna, she sets about making herself a
new life. ))



Very few movies have understood, or captured, the transporting power of
music as completely as Lynne Ramsay’s second feature, Morvern Callar.

When the titular heroine plugs into her Walkman, permanently playing the
compilation tape prepared by her recently deceased boyfriend, the dead-end
supermarket she toils in daily is transformed into a magic carpet ride.

Later, an inhospitable desert will be remade as a gorgeous foreign vista.
The equipment emphasis — always a personal stereo, never a public
performance — can hardly be a coincidence for, like her remarkable debut,
Ratcatcher, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay weaves a fragile fantasy here; a
fundamentally private experience that one imagines would be endangered by
overexposure to harsh critical light.

The film’s grammar is visual rather than verbal, emotional rather than
intellectual, and depending on how beguiled you become by Alwin Kuchler’s
striking photography, the resulting picture is either suffused with a dream-
like logic or hamstrung by elementary plotting.

The effect may be less contemporary than Ramsay imagines but, like all the
best pop songs, the lyrics are not meant to make sense.

In capturing the freshness so obviously fundamental to her art, Ramsay is
again well served by non-professional actors. Her keen eye is most evident
in the casting of unknown Kathleen McDermott as Morvern’s best friend Lanna,
a good time girl more fully and humanely realised than a job lot of Mike
Leigh stereotypes.

However, it is Samantha Morton as Morvern who glues the picture together.
Her pale moon face and liquid blue eyes have already been employed as a
tabula rasa by Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg, but it is Morvern — as
immediate as she is elusive, as earthy as she is ethereal — that provides
the actress with a signature role.

Open-ended parts rarely win over audiences or academies, but Morton’s fully
expressive blankness may just buck that trend.

    • Gość: Edziak Re: Morvern Callar IP: *.in-addr.btopenworld.com 21.03.03, 10:23
      Zapowiedzi byly dobre ale film mnie zupelnie rozczarowal, watek interesujacy
      ale czasem troche sie rwal i nietrzymal kupy, moze jak ludzkie zycie, nie
      podobala mi sie technika filmowania bylam a raczej moje oczy byly bardzo
      zmeczone po tym filmie. Mam tez pytania czy jesli sie kroi zwloki kilka dni po
      smierci to nadal krew sika po scianach? Pokazuje zachodnie spoleczenstwo i
      jakie ono wiedzie zycie, zachod to nie rajska sielanka to wniosek z tego filmu.
      Mozna sobie odpuscic i zaoszczedzic pieniadze na irlandzka produkcje "The
      Magdalens Sisters" albo australijska "Rabbit proof fence" w Polsce pod
      tytulem Polowanie na kroliki chyba juz wkrotce na ekranach.
      Pozdrowionka.
      • Gość: cailin Re: Morvern Callar IP: *.lynx.dialup.pol.co.uk 04.04.03, 00:43
        a mnie sie podobalo...
        to pierwszy tak nie-mainstreamowy film, ktory widzialam w moim tutejszym
        Odeonie... bylam zachwycona zdjeciami i prostota, z jaka pokazano wydarzenia...
        co do krojenia zwlok, to nie mam pojecia - nigdy nie kroilam...

        a oba filmy, ktore polecilas sa swietne, ale moze dla troche (naprawde,
        troszke) mniej wymagajacej widowni - mimo, ze nieamerykanskie, to jednak
        krecone wg schematu tzw. prison movie - kina wieziennego - jak 'Skazani na
        Shawshank' czy 'Midnight Express'... wlasnie po to, aby zyskac troche wieksza
        widownie, bo oba te filmy mialy za zadanie poruszyc opinie spoleczna w swoich
        krajach, co im sie swietnie udalo!

        pozdrawiam cie, Edziak, cos czuje, ze dobrze by nam sie rozmawialo, mimo
        drobnych roznic opinii...
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