Enys Men

Reviews

• "The witchy atmosphere Jenkin conjures is spine-tinglingly devilish, the poetic manifestation of the subject’s deep grief, ever-ambiguous and frosty, taking on the aching melancholy of loss."
  - The Playlist
• "Shot by Jenkin on 16mm color negative with a 1970s clockwork Bolex and scored with post-synch sound, the film looks and sounds as a relic unearthed from one of the island’s caves. A chest stashed with stories in turns seductive and chilling, woven into a tale that will keep on unfurling, in an endless and confounding maze."
  - The Film Stage
• " Its respect for a certain enigmatic filmic tradition -- expressed more plangently by its bygone, tactile fetishism than any prosaic ideas on history, identity, or mortality -- makes for a solid enough foundation."
  - Adam Nayman
• "With almost no dialog at all, the film carefully builds an unnerving ambience that's loaded with freaky implications as well as some colourful historical details."
  - Shadows on the Wall
• "Rather bold, brittle and beguiling."
  - Radio Times
• "Mystifying weirdness on a Cornish island fills this spine-chiller."
  - Sunday Times (UK)
• "Using bold compositions featuring many close-up’s, Jenkin directs your attention to motifs in the protagonist’s environment which later all turn into objects haunted by memory."
  - Awards Daily
• "Jenkin's style is so unusual, so unadorned, it feels almost like a manuscript culture of cinema. There is real artistry in it."
  - The Guardian