Rose of Nevada
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A Cornish seaside town mysteriously returns to life in analog auteur Mark Jenkin’s lo-fi sci-fi meditation on memory starring George MacKay and Callum Turner.
Thirty years ago, fishing trawler the Rose of Nevada vanished off the coast of Cornwall, taking its crew with it. Their village has been in decline ever since. When the boat suddenly reappears out of the fog one day, many townsfolk regard it as a good omen. A new crew is hired and heads out to sea. After a few days, they return with a full catch … but their home isn’t quite as they remember it.
After the folk-horror stylings of Enys Men (MIFF 2022), Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada returns audiences to the social realism of the Cornish fishing diaspora so evocatively portrayed in his debut Bait (MIFF 2019), albeit with a preternatural twist. Shooting in 16mm on vintage Bolex cameras, Jenkin uses visual and aural textures as storytelling devices, immersing viewers in deliberately uncanny realities and time loops. George MacKay and Callum Turner lend star power, but the film remains distinctly Jenkin’s vision: a cinematic artefact that looks like an oil painting come to life and unfolds like a 1970s ghost story.
“[A] mind-fuck of a flick … It’s not every day that you see a film that reminds you of the work of Mike Leigh and David Lynch at the same time.” – RogerEbert.com
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