Enys Men

• Mark Jenkin
• 90 min
• United Kingdom
• 2022
• Fiction

The unique film-poet Mark Jenkin explores both nature mysticism and Cornish folktales in an eerily beautiful folk horror story about a reclusive botanist stranded on a mysterious island in the Atlantic.

On a barren, deserted cliff off the coast of Cornwall in 1973, a field botanist spends lonesome, repetitive days with routine observations of a rare flower. As she repeatedly attempts to explore the mysterious place, the isolated existence soon gets derailed, and her recurrent nightmares about dead miners and drowned sailors become more and more difficult to separate from reality. The completely inimitable Mark Jenkin creates in Enys Men a grainy and nightmarish cinema-poetic masterpiece that leads one’s thoughts to both Robert Eggers The Lighthouse and his own breakthrough Bait (2019).

- Erik Toresson Hellqvist

• Drama
• Experimentell
• Landsbygd
• Omskakande
• Thriller