Bait (15)
Bait was our first taste of Mark Jenkin’s dreamlike style. A poetic, tense dissection of the DFLs-meet-Cornish-locals culture clash (sound familiar?)
This starkly original British drama is set in a Cornish fishing village, where a fisherman’s struggle to preserve his way of life clashes with encroaching tourism and gentrification.
Shot in scratchy black-and-white 16mm and hand-processed, its style evokes early cinema while tackling very now themes of class tension and cultural erosion. Rightly hailed as a modern masterpiece, it's visually striking, narratively rich, and one of the decade’s most distinctive films.
Part of the Mark Jenkin's Cornish Trilogy.
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