{"id":546437,"date":"2026-04-23T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546437\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:10:09","slug":"rose-of-nevada-review-a-film-you-can-virtually-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546437\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Of Nevada Review \u2013 ‘A film you can virtually feel’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a quiet Cornish village, the crew of the fishing boat Rose Of Nevada find themselves flung back in time<\/p>\n

If you saw Mark Jenkin\u2019s first two features, 2019\u2019s evocative and unquantifiably odd Bait<\/a>, and 2023\u2019s even more unusual Enys Men<\/a>, you might think you\u2019ll know what to expect from his third. Yes, Jenkin\u2019s singular, uncompromising style remains unchanged: hand-cranked, grainy 16mm film brought to imperfect life with scratches, fibres and lens flare, and a post-synched soundtrack that lends his films an uncanny vibe. Rose Of Nevada feels thematically familiar too, sharing Bait\u2019s grief over lost fishing communities and Enys Men\u2019s temporal and hauntological shenanigans. But Jenkin weaves a whole new tale of the unexpected here: one that will leave you scratching your head and smelling of fish for days.<\/p>\n

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Rose Of Nevada is the story of the titular trawler, a small boat which appears, unmanned, in the harbour of a present-day, run-down Cornish village 30 years since it, and its crew, went missing. The boat\u2019s disappearance coincided with the collapse of the local economy, and the villagers see its return as an omen. A new crew is assembled \u2014 financially desperate family man Nick (George MacKay), on-the-run drifter Liam (Callum Turner), and a mysterious, salty sea-dog of a skipper (Francis Magee) \u2014 and the trio set off to bring in a haul intended to end three decades of stagnation and community atrophy. But when they return with their catch, Nick and Liam find themselves inexplicably stranded in the 1990s, greeted by the townsfolk as the original crew.<\/p>\n

Ambiguity is everything here.<\/p>\n

The time-travel premise sounds high-concept, but this is less Robert Zemeckis than Robert Bresson. You might be reminded of Back To The Future<\/a> by the bamboozled protagonist looking for a way to escape a 30-years-younger version of his home town, but Jenkin is more interested in a nightmarish, woozy ambience, evoked by rhythmic sound and images and fractured editing, than a propulsive, clearly determined narrative. Ambiguity is everything here, which will either invite you to consider myriad allegorical readings \u2014 climate change, Brexit, industrial decline and the cost-of-living crisis are all hinted at \u2014 or just put you off altogether.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s undeniable, though, is that Jenkin\u2019s filmmaking (he directs, shoots, edits, composes the score and designs the sound himself, as well as operating the camera) is the star of the show. Mesmerising shots of rusted metal, weathered woodwork and flourishing lichen signify a world in decay while, perversely, primary colours \u2014 the blue Cornish sky, Callum Turner\u2019s pink baseball cap \u2014 pop off the screen and slap you in the face. This is a film you can virtually feel. It might not be entry-level Mark Jenkin (that would be Bait), but if you\u2019re willing to surrender to its unique world, it\u2019s well worth getting on board.<\/p>\n

Mark Jenkin is still Mark Jenk-ing: the most stubbornly analogue filmmaker out there has produced another satisfyingly baffling film about Cornish communities and the supernatural tension between past and present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a quiet Cornish village, the crew of the fishing boat Rose Of Nevada find themselves flung back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-546437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}