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Sunderland Film Club presents...Morvern Callar
Content warning: this film contains a depiction of suicide. Whatever you’re going through, a Samaritan will face it with you. Call 116 123 for free or visit samaritans.org
Quick summary
- Audience type
- 15+
- Running time
- 1 hour 33 minutes
- Venue
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- Port Independent
Event description
Join us at Port Independent this August for a screening of Lynne Ramsey’s dreamlike rave-era parable – Morvern Callar.
Morvern Callar wakes up on Christmas morning to find her boyfriend has took his own life. Instead of reporting his death, Morvern empties his bank account and sends his novel to a publisher under her own name. Using the cash, she and her friend Lanna trade Oban for Almeria and embark on a hedonistic and hallucinatory getaway to Southern Spain.
An adaption of Alan Warner’s cult novel of the same name, Ramsey’s second film transposes a feminist fairy tale onto the 18-30’s package holiday to tell a story of self-reinvention, desire and transformation.
This screening is part of This Woman’s Work – a new, monthly programme of screenings highlighting world cinema’s greatest female filmmakers.
As part of our season focusing on Lynne Ramsay. Also coming up:
Sunderland Film Club is supported by Film Hub North, with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network, and Cinema for All’s Glow Scheme. The programme is funded by the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery.
