Trouble Every Day Presents:

MORVERN CALLAR (2002)

Imagine Cinemas Carlton (20 Carlton St.)

7 p.m. Showtime

A Film by Lynne Ramsay (RATCATCHER, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE)

Starring Samantha Morton (SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, MINORITY REPORT, CONTROL) & Kathleen McDermott

Cinematography: Alwin H. Küchler (SUNSHINE, RATCATCHER, STEVE JOBS)

Based on the Somerset Maugham Award-winning novel by Alan Warner.

Featuring a soundtrack including the likes of The Velvet Underground, Stereolab, Can, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Aphex Twin, Nancy Sinatra, The Mamas and the Papas, and more.

Winner: Award of the Youth & C.I.C.A.E. Award – Cannes Film Festival, Best Actress - Toronto Film Critics Association Awards

Official Selection: Toronto International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival

Two days before YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, her new Cannes award-winning, Joaquin Phoenix-starring film opens in Canadian theatres, catch Lynne Ramsay’s out-of-print, sophomore gem MORVERN COLLAR on the big screen. Following the screening, join us in the piano lounge to talk about the film.

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. Moving across a blurred European landscape — from rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the port to the Mediterranean rave scene — we experience everything from Morvern's stark, unflinching perspective.

"Morton finds a wealth of nuance in anomie and neurasthenia." - Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic

"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

"A mesmerizing conundrum of a suspended life in perpetual motion." - Eleanor Ringel Cater, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Wonderfully lush. Pure punk existentialism." - Elvis Mitchell, New York Times

"Rare is the movie that convincingly presents the interior life of a cracked mind." - Michael Agger, Slate

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Lynne Ramsay is the Cannes and BAFTA Award-winning writer/director of RATCATCHER (1999), MORVERN CALLAR (2002), WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2011) and YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2018).

Trouble Every Day Presents is a new monthly screening series celebrating the best of forgotten and undiscovered cinema. Programmed by James Rathbone and Marko Orlic.

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