Abstract folk horror Enys Men is an impressively retro (yet dully ineffective) experiment. JacobOller's review:
Rural American horror is supplied with murderous hillbillies, ready to exact economic revenge on vacationing yuppies, and foreboding log cabins, haunted by the sins of Manifest Destiny. These are our tangible anxieties, out there in the country. Drive a farm-to-market road long enough and you’re liable to see plenty of dilapidated barns surrounded by empty fields, and shacks, not yet Airbnb’d, hidden amongst the hills.
I find abstraction most effective when it’s so broad and expressionistic that our feelings can’t help but overtake the logical parts of our mind. But’s experiment pushes an advancing, clarifying logic—even if it’s mostly free from narrative—so that your movie brain starts hunting for the very changes Woodvine’s character ignores. It notices them just as quickly.
Jenkin returns us to the same images so often that even our lizard brains start playing Spot the Difference. Was there that much moss on that rock before? Are those flowers moving with the wind, or against it? For those intent on ignoring the bits of rusted mine track poking through the dirt and the cavernous well opening , a strange piece of artwork on the naturalist’s wall gives us a shove in the right direction: Underneath our feet is the graveyard of history. We’re all conducting our lives on top of tombs, whether they merely house the remains of those that came before or entire past civilizations. So what’s under the island?’s 90 minutes, Jenkin’s film feels less and less satisfying.
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