Independent Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Bait; Enys Men) has a distinctive aesthetic, shooting on a windup16mm Bolex camera and (in this instance) using only post-recorded sound. His films have the feel of home movies from another era… Which is particularly appropriate for this Twilight Zone-ish tale of time slippage and memory: 30 years ago, the fishing trawler Rose of Nevada disappeared at sea. Now, it has returned. Desperate to make ends meet, two men (George MacKay and Callum Turner) sign on to crew, but on returning to port they discover they’ve been transported back into the past, where they are accepted as the original fishermen.
Although there are notes of paranoia and panic, stoicism is the order of the day. Jenkin is interested in exploring each man’s internal reaction to this strange predicament, and their interactions with the families on terra firma. It’s a disconcerting film about the secrets and lies we choose to live with.
As moving as it is unnerving.
Rafa Sales Ross, Little White Lies
Viscerally, addictively watchable… a work of hypnotically accomplished form and legitimate depth.
B+ Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire
Atmospheric… thrumming with foreboding and dread.
Deborah Ross, The Spectator
Mark Jenkin
George MacKay, Callum Turner, Rosalind Eleazar
UK
2025
English
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Credits
Executive Producer
Ama Ampadu, Farhana Bhula, Ollie Madden, Ben Coren, Johnny Fewings, Ben Bond
Producer
Denzil Monk
Screenwriter
Mark Jenkin
Cinematography
Mark Jenkin
Editor
Mark Jenkin
Original Music
Mark Jenkin
Production Design
Felicity Hickson
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