7.1 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Morvern Calllar's boyfriend kills himself, leaving behind a mix tape and an unpublished novel. Instead of reporting his death, Morvern puts her name on his novel, sends it to a publisher, and uses his bank card to pay for a trip to Spain with her friend Lana, where she tries to lose herself in sensation and chaos.
Starring: Samantha Morton, Paul Popplewell, Dolly Wells, Bryan Dick (I), James Wilson (IV)Drama | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region free
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Lynn Ramsay’s “Morvern Callar” isn't a story of a young woman's mourning period, nor is it a tale of the pain that remains when a loved one dies. The film is more impressionistic than that, using environments and silent atmosphere to piece together a journey of self for the eponymous character as she evolves from a meek girlfriend and minimum-wage slave to a woman finding a life of her own.
The AVC encoded image (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation is sourced from a 2K "restoration" of the 35mm interpositive. "Morvern Callar" is a picture committed to abstract imagery and intense textures at times, and the viewing experience is quite compelling. Detail is preserved throughout the viewing experience, highlighting skin textures and expressive faces. Clarity is also welcome with housing visits and tourism, getting a sense of character surroundings, with decent dimension found along the way. Colors are accurate, securing saturated imagery and natural skintones. Livelier hues, such as Christmas lighting and sun-drenched vistas, register as intended. Delineation is satisfactory. Grain is film-like. Source is in good condition.
The 5.1 DTS-HD MA mix is unusual in design, balancing complete silence with more immersive musical offerings, with mixtape selections offering circular engagement, and a club visit brings pounding techno to the listening event. Dialogue exchanges are clear and emotive, handling heavy accents comfortably (subtitles are included and quite helpful). Atmospherics secure naturalistic moods and room tone.
If there must be an actress hired to convey so much in a stare, Ramsay does the movie a great favor by bringing in Morton to capture the sea change inside the character. Morton is hypnotic in "Morvern Callar," using long stretches of silence to detail the experience of this young woman, who's been offered an extreme psychological event she mostly wants to hide from view. Morton keeps the film engrossing, even when Ramsay wants to take off on tangents involving the natural world and behavioral study. There is little dialog for the actress to work with – mostly moments of thinking and gazing -- but she uses this time wonderfully, providing some understanding of Morvern's state of shock and ultimate motivations.
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