Morvern Callar (2002)
Didn't realise this was Lynne Ramsay until just before sticking it on. I remember watching
Ratcatcher in a film class in school and being bored to tears. I did like the shots of the wheat field though.
Morvern Callar was alright, but the character was a little frustrating, also the dialogue was so quiet I had to have subtitles on. It referred to a bunch of the songs that played as "trance music" too. That scene with the Lee Perry tune,
Hold of Death, "trance music plays"...
I read a few reviews once it'd finished and someone mentioned the "moral ambiguity" of Morvern, but I think that's being generous. I mean she left her boyfriend's dead body in the flat for God knows how long, chopped him up and buried him without telling anyone what happened, nicked the money he left for his funeral, nicked his novel, dragged her friend out of a hotel in Spain then left her alone in the middle of nowhere and took 100k off a publisher for a book she didn't write. I dunno that you can write all that off as morally ambiguous. That being said, I didn't get the impression the audience was supposed to be judging her. Just observing.
One thing I did like was the contrast between Scotland and Spain. The moment they get off the plane's like going from black and white to colour. Also the party scenes are well done. That shot of her lifting her skirt at the passing fisherman's really eerie, like seeing a ghost on the shore.