Callum Turner

Rose of Nevada

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Liam and Nick in yellow oilskins

If it’s artisan film-making you’re after, authenticity guaranteed, then Mark Jenkin is your man. Rose of Nevada is his second film since he slapped critical acclaim about with Bait, his Cornwall-set black-and-white tale of a left-behind town and the awful DFL (Down From London) weekenders who regularly turn up looking for, yes, authenticity. Since then Jenkin has come back with Enys Men, spooky folk horror of sorts. And now this, a tale set in a Cornish fishing town whose better days seem to be returning, at least as an echo, in a time-travelling turn of events. Since Bait, as Jenkin’s profile has risen, he’s started employing more expensive stars and – he’d probably … Read more

Eternity

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Joan with Larry and Luke

A supernatural comedy just like Hollywood used to make – that’s the big idea behind Eternity, Irish indie film-maker David Freyne’s arrival in the bigtime, a knowing nod to Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch with a touch of Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death thrown in for fun. To be fair to Freyne and co-writer Pat Cunnane, they don’t overdo the allusions, possibly to strangle compare-and-contrast criticism at birth. Though the plot – a recently dead woman is asked which of two men she wants to spend eternity with: her first love or her husband of many years – feels like it’s straight from the era of The Ghost Goes West and … Read more