However, where Egger's film spirals into increasingly vaudeville contortions, Bait stages a climax of almost unbearable silence.
You can unsubscribe at any time. Each sequence is full of overwhelmingly pleasurable visual texture thanks to the prickly romance of the black-and-white grain and Jenkin's rapturous framing. Tensions are often undercut by scalding comedy.
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Bait is by no means a horror in the traditional sense.
The film starring Kernow King is a masterpiece, Get our ultimate guide on things to do with CornwallLive's FREE What's On newsletter. Similarly, The complex cinematic lineage of Bait had me scribbling a diverse, conflicting series of notes: its use of English wyrd and outsider intrusion recalls the parochial gloom of The Wicker Man and Straw Dogs; its splaying, vaguely comic sense of low-budget DIY horror feels like the set-up of The Evil Dead; the clashing violence of the edits echoes Chabrolian thrillers like La Rupture; and as hostilities eke closer to boiling point, and Rowe finds himself smashing the intruders’ knick-knacks, there’s a sense of the explosiveness of Do the Right Thing. CF Watkins has pulled off the unique trick of creating an album that is imbued with the warmth of the American South as well as the urban sophistication of New York. British Independent Film Awards", "EIFF 2019 Official Awards | Edinburgh International Film Festival", "Mark Jenkin's Bait wins the Audience Award for best feature film", "FNE at New Horizons IFF 2019: Bait Wins Grand Prize at 19th New Horizons IFF", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bait_(2019_film)&oldid=982635776, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film, IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival, International Competition - Grand Prize City of Lisbon, Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director); Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers), This page was last edited on 9 October 2020, at 11:13.
Fisherman-without-a-boat Martin (Edward Rowe) declares war on a particular family, partly driven by displaced grief. The stark black and white graininess manages to pull the soul out of characters' eyes. It's not all eccentric doctors treating people with Somerdorset accents, the rich fighting over food and dead husbands, sweeping clifftop horse rides, ripped bodices and topless scything. We hope the beta will be up sometime late next week. Do you understand what you can and cannot do in Cornwall, according to the current Covid-19 regulations? "Bait first look: Mark Jenkin heralds the new weird Britain".
Mantgani, Ian. Mark Jenkin's haunting Bait exhibits a ghostliness that complements the film's transient landscape of seasonal capital and short-term holiday lets. "Interview: Mark Jenkin". It’s a mesmerising work of art, but it's also entertaining, moving, opinionated and hilarious.
Through suspicious, beady eyes, he watches as the tourist season rolls into town, London sophisticates fill their holiday homes with prosecco and take up all the parking spaces, and gangs of students whine about the noise of local industry or make their own yahooing sounds as they venture out on drinking binges.
It is perhaps telling that the director's next project (due to begin shooting in May this year) has been identified, explicitly, as a horror picture—like Bait, directed from Jenkin's script and located deep within the Cornish landscape. Over a modest 89-minute run-time, the veil of the everyday is peeled back to reveal the tortured inner space of its protagonist. This is proudly hand-made cinema, in and of the world; an ethos upheld in much of Jenkin's filmography, whether it's the couple's search for stable housing in 2015's Bronco's House (2015)or the strained relationship between parents and children in the 2007 feature, The Midnight Drives. It’s a creeping, original British work that feels pounded into existence by hand, or possibly belched up by the angry sea.