Enys Men [DVD + Blu-ray]

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They have been edited together for this release – you can tell the joins from changes in ambience – and play as an optional audio track on the main feature.

Recently we’ve had films like The Witch, Hagazussa, and In The Earth that have expanded the genre, and now Enys Men, directed by Mark Jenkin, who made the acclaimed film Bait. A wildlife volunteer's (Mary Woodvine) daily observations of a rare flower take a dark turn into the strange and metaphysical, forcing both her and viewers to question what is real and what is nightmare.Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. He picks out some influences and references in Enys Men, from Blood on Satan’s Claw to The Shout (shots of the Volunteer and the Boatman screaming) and those public information films which traumatised a generation of schoolchildren, and details some of the film’s time slippage: not only the radio announcement from the future mentioned above but also twenty-first-century music playing over that radio.

The BFI’s booklet, available with the first pressing of this release only, runs to thirty-two pages. Legend had it that the 19 stones were the petrified remains of agroup of girls punished for dancing on a Sunday. It’s full to the brim with haunting imagery that often feels very hallucinatory, and this is coupled with an incredibly impressionistic feel, certainly from the editing. Filmed on location around the disused tin mines of West Penwith, it is also an enigmatic ode to Cornwall’s rich traditions of folklore and the region’s rugged natural beauty. Special features include an audio commentary by director Mark Jenkin and film critic Mark Kermode (2023); Mark Jenkin and Mary Woodvine in conversation with Mark Kermode (2022, 29 mins); Film Sounds (2023, 86 mins): Mark Jenkin and filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) discussing the subtleties of sound in film; Haunters of the Deep (1984, 61 mins): a Children’s Film Foundation adventure that shares many West Cornwall locations with Enys Men; Recording the Score (2022, 6 mins): Mark Jenkin at work on the film’s distinctive soundtrack; Mark Jenkin’s audio diaries (2022, 90 mins); The Duchy of Cornwall (1938, 15 mins): an iconic film from the vaults of the BFI National Archive and with the first pressing only, an illustrated booklet with a Director’s Statement.The otherwise nameless volunteer (Mary Woodvine) meanwhile lives alone on an island in ‘73, recording a rare flower’s daily condition, with the radio and a boatman’s supplies her only mainland contact. As that subtitle indicates, this is in eleven subsections and Fowler tackles the films use of folk-horror elements but also its subversion of our expectations and its breakdown of a conventional narrative. The sound is an important factor, with a heady mix of obtuse and earthy sounds and things we’re familiar with, like the seemingly-constant stream of a CB radio. Its creative approach to the narrative may make it feel inaccessible to some, but let it flow over you and soak it in. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).