Rose of Nevada
16mm maestro Mark Jenkin returns to a coastal village in Cornwall for a mysterious film in which fishermen (Callum Turner and George MacKay) are ghosts of another era.
In the latest feature from R&A favourite Mark Jenkin, everything leaks: the roof, time, and identities. The streets and local pub of a small Cornish village have fallen quiet, with fishing boats no longer heading out to sea. Instead, a vessel named Rose of Nevada—vanished 30 years earlier—pulls into the harbour. When she is brought back into service, two men step up as crew: Liam (Callum Turner), a penniless wanderer, and Nick (George MacKay), a family man whose roof can no longer keep the rain out. The routine of fishing labour repeats mechanically, over and over again.
Jenkin returns to the same landscapes and mood as his acclaimed film Bait (R&A 2019), which Mark Kermode of The Observer dubbed “one of the defining British films of the decade”. Yet, rather than grainy black-and-white visuals, Rose of Nevada bursts with rich colours, details, and raw materiality: weathered skin, smudged lenses, and scarlet carnations set against a deep blue sea. Seen like this, the 16mm film stock feels almost eternal.
The social realism of manual trade and a declining coastal town is spliced with ghosts and time travel. When Nick and Liam dock back at the harbour, they find themselves 30 years in the past. And they are no longer Nick and Liam.
Kaisu Tervonen (translated by Kati Ilomäki)
Screenings
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Savoy-teatteriWed 23.9. at 20.45–22.39114 min, 1/3
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Kinopalatsi 1Thu 24.9. at 18.15–20.09114 min, 2/3
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Kinopalatsi 2Sat 26.9. at 15.30–17.24114 min, 3/3