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“A mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first frame to the last.” -Glenn Kenny, PremiereThe Christmas season was never bluer than it is in Lynne Ramsay’s oblique masterpiece of dislocation MORVERN CALLAR. The film opens on Christmas morning as the title character (Samantha Morton) awakes to find her boyfriend face down in a pool of blood, dead by his own hand. He has left behind a suicide note, a mixtape, Christmas presents, money for a funeral, and an unpublished novel. Faced with this crisis, what can Morvern do? Put her name on the novel, submit it to a publisher, hack up her boyfriend’s body, and head to Spain with the cash, of course! What might sound lurid or deeply unpleasant plays, in Ramsay’s masterful hands, as an utterly entrancing study of the vagaries of the human heart and mind. Morvern is an arresting enigma brought to full mercurial life by Morton in one of the 21st century’s finest performances. Powered by one of the coolest soundtracks of all time—featuring tracks by Can, Stereolab, Aphex Twin, and more—MORVERN CALLAR is haunting, hypnotic, and, more than 20 years on, remains one of cinema’s most beautiful unsolved riddles.
This program will also feature Lynne Ramsay’s Christmas-set short film GASMAN.
And come out early for an Aphex Twin pre-show starting at 6:30 pm!
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Arkadin Cinema & Bar, 5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton
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