Dir/Wri: Lynne Ramsay | UK Drama | Cast: Samantha Morton
This adaptation of Alan Warner’s novel suffers from various central improbabilities and a queasily amoral tone starting with the eponymous heroine waking on Christmas morning and discovering her boyfriend has committed suicide leaving a fully completed novel on his computer.
Miss Caller then does a truly shocking thing (SPOILER COMING:) when showing absolutely no emotion she simply substitutes her name as author for her boyfriend’s and sends it to a publisher.
In reality any publisher presented with a manuscript from a first-time author might have eventually got round to replying expressing interest but stipulating “you’ve first got to change this, This, THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS (contd. P.94.) before we continue any further”.
But no, before you can say “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” the book is a runaway best seller and Miss Caller spends the rest of the film as one of the ideal rich. The End. @RichardChatten