Enys Men [DVD + Blu-ray]

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The sound is an important factor, with a heady mix of obtuse and earthy sounds and things we’re familiar with, like the seemingly-constant stream of a CB radio. Extras on this BFI dual-format release include a Children’s Film Foundation film, Haunters of the Deep (1984), sharing West Cornwall locations and a haunted tin mine with Enys Men, and The Duchy of Cornwall (1938), a travel short evoking the county’s Mediterranean forebears, storm-lashed iron coast, wrestling rituals, tin mines and tourists. E nys Men is a mind-bending Cornish folk horror set in 1973 that unfolds on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast. Left to her own devices, Amy meets local lad Josh (Gary Simmons), who has seen visions of a boy (Philip Martin) who speaks to him in Cornish.

However, it confirms that Jenkin is one of the most distinctive filmmakers working in the UK at the moment. The woman looks into a bedroom and is unsurprised to see a dark-haired girl (played by Flo Crowe) sleeping there. As Jenkin explains in an elegant commentary with Mark Kermode which otherwise insists on mystery, she soon slips into a mirror-image of her house, and her mindscape shifts. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love.We see the patterned grille of a battered Dansette transistor radio in an almost abstract close-up, a rattling red generator located just outside the house and a jar of Seven Maids Dried Skimmed Milk, a fictional brand that foreshadows a strikingly odd scene later on. By a cliffside, a woman in a very shiny red rain jacket examines some unusual looking flowers with white petals and red and yellow filaments.

It’s not really a traditional narrative piece, much more a kind of puzzle perhaps, and it’s very much a film that you begin to decode as the imagery and the sound soak in. Strickland is a good choice for this discussion, as his own films have used sound in striking ways: it’s almost the entire subject matter of Berberian Sound Studio, for example. Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net.

Before the song has finished, I suspect that it won’t be long before I’ll want to see Enys Men again too.