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...MORVERN CALLAR. Morvern Callar screens...
...film school, won the Prix du Jury at Cannes. Her third short, Gasman, took the big prize at Cannes too and the 32-year-old Scot's first full-length film, Ratcatcher, became an art-house hit. But with her latest effort, a psycho road movie called Morvern Callar, Ramsay may finally be positioned for box-office success. Her movie has a riveting - and bankable - young star, Samantha Morton (Minority Report). It has a respectable budget, $6 million, and a hip provenance: it's based on Alan Warner's 1995 cult novel, which was part of a Scottish literary charge...
Goya shows that the civilians suffered in many ways: in "Para Eso Habeis Nacido" (This Is What You Were Born For), a man vomits on a pile of typhoid-ridden corpses, against a background of mottled, dark blotches. In "Enterrary Callar" (Bury Them and Be Quiet), Goya shows a mound of bodies, topped by a weeping woman and a man covering his mouth at the sheer horror of the smell. "When the French entered the city," reports an 18th century English journalist (quoted in the excellent catalogue by Eleanor Sayre) "6000 bodies were lying in the streets and trenches...
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