Bait (2019)

  • A black-and-white bearded man in the broken mirror with parts of his face reflected crookedly in other pieces of the mirror
  • A black-and-white bearded man looking past the camera in closeup
  • A young boy in a white T-shirt with a bearded man in wornout dirty pants with suspenders in the back, both looking back past the camera
  • A bearded man in a black hat and a polkadot shirt speaking with someone as a young woman intimately behind him follows their conversation, her head resting on her arm
  • A man lying on a blanket in his underpants and a woman sitting beside him as both read their books on a pebble beach, shot from above

In anticipation of the release of his sure-to-be-cult classic folk horror opus Enys Men, we’re bringing celebrated Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin’s film Bait to the Big Roxie on March 22. One night only!

“A genuine modern masterpiece” –Mark Kermode

A celebration of cinema as a physical medium, this delirious whatsit from Cornish director Mark Jenkin is quite unlike any feature film you’re likely to see this year. Martin (Edward Rowe) is a cove fisherman whose brother has started using their father’s boat to shuttle tourists, soon causing latent familial tensions—not to mention antagonisms between tourists and locals—to explode in ever-surprising fashion. Shot on tactile hand-processed black-and-white 16mm and unfolding with the staccato rhythms of avant-garde cinema, Bait marks a singular achievement: an idiosyncratic work of social realism fascinatingly pitched somewhere between documentary and political melodrama. Winner 2020 BAFTA – Outstanding Debut by a Director and Producers.

Part of Two by Mark Jenkin.

Runtime
1h 29m
Year
2019
Director
Mark Jenkin
Format
DCP
Country
United Kingdom
Categories
TWO BY MARK JENKIN , Featured
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