Samantha Morton
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After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
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| Release Date | 2002-11-01 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 1h 37m |
| Directors | Lynne Ramsay, Alwin H. Küchler, Des Hamilton, Michael Elliott, Karoline Blohm, Mark Fenn, Ana Gallardo, Rufus Rawley, Nic Shearer, Anthony Wilcox |
| Producers | George Faber, Charles Pattinson, Robyn Slovo, Leonard Crooks, András Hámori, Barbara McKissack, Seaton McLean, David M. Thompson, Ronaldo Vasconcellos |
| Writers | Liana Dognini, Lynne Ramsay, Alan Warner |
Samantha Morton is the eponymous, bored, supermarket check out girl whose boyfriend commits suicide. She hides his body, takes his money - and a book that he had recently completed and along with her best friend, sets off on some travels. Initially around a wet and windy Scotland before heading to Spain for some fun. My issue with this rather dreary introspective is that neither she, nor her pal interested me in the slightest. Morton's performance is actually quite good; and her life of drugs, sex and lack of fulfilment may well have been the depiction of a labour of love from director Lynne Ramsey and co-author Liana Dognini, but as a piece of engaging cinema it fails completely. I don't doubt that there are many people for whom this is a manifestation of their psychological difficulties - an inability to form any kind of meaningful relationship - on any level - with anyone else; but it is presented in such a drab, pedestrian fashion that even some grand cinematography of the Balearic scenery does little to lift it from the doldrums.
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