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‘Enys Men’ Review: A Gorgeously Grainy Folk Horror Steeped in Style But Starved of Story

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Jessica Kiang A central image in Mark Jenkin’s weathered, rough-hewn, rocky folk horror “Enys Men” is of a weathered, rough-hewn rock.

A menhir that looks like it’s been orphaned from Stonehenge stands perched on a blustery hillside on the eponymous isle (pronounced Ennis Main, the Cornish for “Stone Island”).

And just as many such ancient monoliths remain somewhat inexplicable, this striking cinematic anomaly appears as though excavated from the annals of filmmaking history, with the viewer playing the befuddled archaeologist faced with an uncanny artefact from a lost civilization.

Shame that sometimes, such discoveries turn out to be more impressive for how they look than what they mean.Shot by Jenkin himself, who also writes, edits and scores, the hand-processed, richly saturated “Enys Men” is warm to the eye and livid with gorgeous 16mm grain, glorying in a scratchy, imprecisely post-synced soundtrack.

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