Bait (2019)
Country: GB
Technical: bw/1.33:1 89m
Director: Mark Jenkin
Cast: Edward Rowe, Giles King, Chloe Endean
Synopsis:
In a Cornish village, frictions between second-home Londoners and the fishermen brothers who sold them their cottage begin with a parking dispute but end in tragedy.
Review:
Poverty of means including 16mm and post-dubbed sound, even shocking acting, are understandable and can lead to raw, effective results. Quite why the makers then added artificial distressing, negative images and picture whiteouts is questionable. The end product is like a boring student film with a wilfully obscure ending and some wincingly symbolic montage. One is distracted by wondering that if you kept all your cash in a cake tin labelled 'Boat' you would leave it on the kitchen window sill with the window vent open and the front door unlocked.
Country: GB
Technical: bw/1.33:1 89m
Director: Mark Jenkin
Cast: Edward Rowe, Giles King, Chloe Endean
Synopsis:
In a Cornish village, frictions between second-home Londoners and the fishermen brothers who sold them their cottage begin with a parking dispute but end in tragedy.
Review:
Poverty of means including 16mm and post-dubbed sound, even shocking acting, are understandable and can lead to raw, effective results. Quite why the makers then added artificial distressing, negative images and picture whiteouts is questionable. The end product is like a boring student film with a wilfully obscure ending and some wincingly symbolic montage. One is distracted by wondering that if you kept all your cash in a cake tin labelled 'Boat' you would leave it on the kitchen window sill with the window vent open and the front door unlocked.
Country: GB
Technical: bw/1.33:1 89m
Director: Mark Jenkin
Cast: Edward Rowe, Giles King, Chloe Endean
Synopsis:
In a Cornish village, frictions between second-home Londoners and the fishermen brothers who sold them their cottage begin with a parking dispute but end in tragedy.
Review:
Poverty of means including 16mm and post-dubbed sound, even shocking acting, are understandable and can lead to raw, effective results. Quite why the makers then added artificial distressing, negative images and picture whiteouts is questionable. The end product is like a boring student film with a wilfully obscure ending and some wincingly symbolic montage. One is distracted by wondering that if you kept all your cash in a cake tin labelled 'Boat' you would leave it on the kitchen window sill with the window vent open and the front door unlocked.