Morvern Callar
Schedule
Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 at 09:15 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Coolidge Corner Theatre | Brookline, MA
Advertisement
On Christmas morning, Morvern Callar (Samatha Morton) wakes up to discover that her boyfriend, a troubled writer, has taken his own life in the apartment they share, leaving behind an assortment of lovingly wrapped presents: a leather jacket, a Walkman with a carefully curated mixtape, and instructions on what to do with the completed manuscript of his final novel. After a few days spent numbly going about her everyday routine, Morvern surreptitiously disposes of her lover’s body, puts her own name on his manuscript, and takes off for a vacation in Spain with her best mate Lanna (Kathleen McDermott). Refusing to psychologize its inscrutable protagonist, Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation of Alan Warner’s prizewinning novel threads its minimal, stream-of-consciousness narrative together with the mixtape-derived soundtrack (which includes cuts from Aphex Twin, The Velvet Underground, Boards of Canada, and Nancy Sinatra), the woozy beats combining with the trance-like visuals to offer a cryptic key to Morvern’s state of mind.
Advertisement
Where is it happening?
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St,Brookline, Massachusetts, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.
