ROSE OF NEVADA

Rose of Nevada is an almost perfect Venn diagram of ghost story, traditional horror and psychological thriller. All three genres are different but they have a few key similarities like spirits, supernatural beings/occurrences and tortured psyches. This movie has the type of jump scares that you’d find in a traditional horror film. One of the main characters is plagued with disturbing visions that one might find in a physiological thriller. And this is very much a ghost story as it involves a dying town that’s haunted by the disappearance of a boat crew from over 30 years ago.
In the film, two inexperienced sailors in need of money are hired to take a boat out on a fishing excursion on the same cursed fishing boat that once carried the missing boat crew 30 years ago. The job goes well but when they return to their dock, they soon discover they have somehow been transported 30 years in the past to the exact same place but with different identities.

This is sort of a spiritual sequel to Jenkin’s last film; Enys Men. A lot of the imagery is almost identical, we see a lot of the same actors and the tone/music/pacing/ambiance are all the same. The only difference is there is more of a plot to Rose of Nevada.

Mark Jenkin even borrows/steals/pulls from the same sources of inspiration (click here and here to read my thoughts on Enys Men).

Between The Tides / Rose Of Nevada

Meshes Of The Afternoon / Rose Of Nevada

The purest film included in this collection. A camera, a voice, some music. A beautiful and apparently simple portrait of a loved one, but also a love letter to the medium of film itself; a past-tense art form that shows us ghosts and freezes time. Truly transcendental filmmaking - Mark Jenkin on A Portrait Of Ga, Vice

A Portrait Of Ga / Rose Of Nevada

I can’t articulate what effect Bresson’s films have on me, that’s the beauty of it – Mark Jenkin, Ukfilmreview.co.uk

Pickpocket / Rose Of Nevada

For me, Tarkovsky’s films exist outside of time and space. I can’t imagine how a film like Mirror sat within the cinema of its time - Mark Jenkin, Criterion

The Mirror / Rose Of Nevada

this [A Warning To The Curious] is my favourite – a highly atmospheric piece of visual storytelling with a chilling climax. I find the simplicity of the filmmaking invigorating. No doubt born of limitation, this is cinema by way of TV - Mark Jenkin, Vice

A Warning To The Curious / Rose Of Nevada

After watching this movie I think Mark Jenkin and Jean Epstein deserve to be mentioned in the same conversation. The majority of their films take place in rural/remote European fishing towns with (some) non-professional actors.

Finis Terrae / Rose Of Nevada

L'or Des Mers / Rose Of Nevada

Mor'vran / Rose Of Nevada

Much like most new releases that I post about on here, this is a movie I enjoyed very much but don’t know too many people I would recommend it to. I mostly just used this as a cheap excuse to share some side-by-side comparisons that I had fun making.