Those who enjoy cinema's more experimental works should seek this one out; more mainstream audiences may not find Enys Men to their liking.
Mark Jenkin's Enys Men is a film that's difficult to pin down in writing. Narratively, it's a couple steps above a Rorschach test— there are clues, but no answers, and the only thing that will be easily agreed upon between viewers is the basic premise. The experience is so affect-oriented, so predicated on meaningful repetition and the accumulation of atmosphere, that any written rendering of it will seem too literal.
Being left narratively unmoored can be frustrating, but for most of the movie, that feeling is drowned out by other, more intentional ones. Enys Men's grip on the viewer is strong and immediate. The mise-en-scène, and the striking use of color in particular, so clearly evokes the era that it's almost ironic how committed the film becomes to disrupting one's sense of time.
The non-diegetic aspect of this — in which that sense of greater importance is experienced as the guiding hand of the artist — is also a great asset. Enys Men becomes opaque quite quickly , and the film's strong authorial voice helps the audience trust the process and remain engaged. For those viewers willing to give themselves over to Enys Men as a purely affective experience, this should carry them through to the end.
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