Rhian from Rhyl, Teresa from Trent and of course who could forget Brenda from Bradford. All ex-girlfriends of our Editor who went on to far happier lives – Brenda now works in an abattoir. Rose of Nevada was never one of these ladies. Instead it’s the name of a boat that is found in the dock of a depressed Cornish village by a startled fisherman. Startled because the boat had been lost at sea thirty years earlier in a terrible storm. He doesn’t waste any time informing the widow of one of the drowned fisherman about the boat’s return who accepts the news with a sense of impending doom.
But it’s not long before he sees an opportunity to put the boat back to work and recruits a salty sea dog of a captain along with two others: considerate Nick (George Mackay) and keen drinker Liam (Callum Turner) who enjoys chatting up the lost fisherman’s daughter who gives him her Dad’s old cap that he dons when he begins work on the boat. That Nick finds the words, ’Get off the boat now’ scratched below deck should be warning enough.
But after a few days they return to dock with a boat full of fish only to find the village they return to is that of 30 years previously and the town just accepts them as the two men who had gone missing. So whilst Liam takes it all in his stride even taking up living with the mother of the girl who had given him the cap, it’s Nick who is horrified at what he has found himself in with no understanding of what has happened or how he has found himself in such a situation.
Rose of Nevada is from writer- director Mark Jenkin whose idiosyncratic style has his film shot on 16mm, hand developed leaving frequent scratches and blemishes on the stock and with dialogue overdubbed to produce a stylized film that has become his trademark along with lingering shots of rusty boat parts, torrential rain and branches battered by the wind.
It is a individual film to Jenkin alone and no other film maker makes films quite like him. In turn eerie, unsettling, claustrophobic, existential even but it is beguiling and leaves you pondering what you have seen for a long after the film has finished.
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Here’s the Rose of Nevada trailer……
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