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  1. Jun 30, 2024 · Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling.

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  2. Jul 1, 2024 · The novel on which Ramsay’s gritty and sublime mood portrait is based happens to be one of my all-time favorite works of literature (the novel of the same name by Alan Warner), but what makes it so great as literature is its unfilmable interiority, Morvern’s incantatory thoughts.

  3. Jul 14, 2024 · A supermarket shelf-packer in Oban, Morvern awakes on Christmas Day with her half-naked, completely dead boyfriend on the floor beside her - wrists slit and a suicide love-note on his PC. Why?...

  4. 4 days ago · In her next film, the drama Morvern Callar, she played a grieving young woman from Scotland who decides to escape to Spain after the suicide of her boyfriend.

  5. Jul 4, 2024 · Continuum Contemporaries Alan Warner's Morvern Callar: A Reader's Guide. Sophy Dale. 3.69

  6. Jul 17, 2024 · Director: Lynne Ramsay. Running Time: 97mins. Country: UK/Can. Year: 2002. Morvern discovers the lifeless body of her boyfriend, after he commits suicide in their rented apartment.

  7. Jul 14, 2024 · I’ll write about Morvern Callar properly later this year when I re-read it, because it deserves so much more attention than I can give it right now. All you need to know, is that it is the book that finally made me pick up Shirley Jackson’s final novel in the first days of January, chasing the high of how I felt saying goodbye to sweet, awful Morvern.