{"id":849277,"date":"2026-08-07T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849277\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:16:11","slug":"time-travel-mystery-a-hallucinogenic-trip-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849277\/","title":{"rendered":"Time-travel mystery a hallucinogenic trip \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a spooky premise: A fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, that disappeared along with its crew 30 years ago, makes a mysterious return \u2014 empty but unchanged \u2014 to a small village in Cornwall, on England\u2019s southwest coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s back,\u201d the boat\u2019s owner says ominously. Even more ominously, he doesn\u2019t sound particularly surprised. It feels as if this has happened before.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something unsettling going on in this strange and singular film. Cornish writer-director Mark Jenkin (Bait, Enys Men) has crafted a ghostly time-travel tale that collapses past and present, leaving his characters \u2014 and the audience \u2014 in haunting emotional and moral quandaries.<\/p>\n

If the film\u2019s sense of time can be deliberately hazy, its sense of place is very clear. All three of Jenkin\u2019s features have been set in Cornwall, and there\u2019s an intimate, immediate sense of connection to this coastal town, which is depressed and dwindling, its inhabitants beset by economic precarity. The harbour is deserted, the pub is empty, shop windows are boarded up and the young people are leaving. It seems as if the disappearance of that boat and crew broke not just the men\u2019s grieving families but the whole community.<\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s why, after surreptitiously stripping the boat\u2019s name off the hull, the owner has no trouble finding two young men who really need work. Nick (1917\u2019s George MacKay) wants money to take care of his wife (Emily Daglish-Laine) and young daughter, and Liam (One Night Only\u2019s Callum Turner) is a drifter who\u2019s been sleeping rough. Along with a vaguely sinister skipper (played by Francis Magee, a fisherman before he became an actor), they head out to sea.<\/p>\n

Three days later the men return to the same harbour, but they are \u2014 somehow \u2014 three decades in the past. Even more unnerving, the townspeople greet Nick and Liam as the men who went missing all those years ago.<\/p>\n

Jenkin has set the men adrift in time. The 1990s harbour is now crowded with people and trucks, the pub packed, the main street lined with businesses. Liam, who has nothing to return to in the 2020s, is happy to claim a new identity that includes a readymade home with Tina (Slow Horses\u2019 Rosalind Eleazar). Nick, though, has left behind his family, and he\u2019s desperate to get back, even as it\u2019s unclear whether that future still exists.<\/p>\n

Time-travel stories, from Back to the Future to The Terminator to Groundhog Day, have always played around with temporal paradoxes and crazy causal loops. And this is art-house time-travel, so we get all those head-busting difficulties, along with an austere insistence on not explaining much.<\/p>\n

Jenkin combines passages of hallucinatory eeriness with kitchen-sink working-class realism, especially around the hard labour of catching, gutting and icing fish. His debut feature, Bait, also took place in a hollowed-out Cornish fishing village, and one senses that much of the horror in Rose of Nevada is economic and social, an undertow of submerged grief at the loss of a way of life.<\/p>\n

This is underlined by the look of the film. Jenkin uses an old-school spring-wound Bolex camera that delivers a grainy, textured analogue feel. He concentrates closely on physical evidence of time passing and the town becoming more impoverished, tracking signs of corrosion and decay, of peeling paint, rusting metal and weathered wood. These sequences \u2014 often using extreme closeups \u2014 feel hyper-real but also dreamy and weird.<\/p>\n

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From left: Callum Turner and George MacKay star in Rose of Nevada.<\/p>\n

Jenkin\u2019s approach can be obstinately oblique. The narrative is understated \u2014 you need to work to figure out who everyone is and how they are related across time \u2014 and there is very little dialogue.<\/p>\n

But MacKay and Turner anchor things with minimalist but moving performances, and a story that begins as confounding becomes more and more compelling, even as we move to an uncertain tomorrow.<\/p>\n

arts@winnipegfreepress.com<\/p>\n

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Alison Gillmor
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Studying at the University of Winnipeg and later Toronto\u2019s York University, Alison Gillmor planned to become an art historian. She ended up catching the journalism bug when she started as visual arts reviewer at the Winnipeg Free Press in 1992.<\/p>\n

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