‘Enys Men’ Review: A Woman’s Mind Unravels in Mark Jenkin’s Hypnotic Folk Horror

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  • Author: Caryn James
  • March 30,2023

The title of Mark Jenkin’s elegant psychological drama, Enys Men, is Cornish for Stone Island, a reference to the isolated landscape where a woman identified in the credits only as The Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) lives alone in a vine-covered cottage. A monolithic stone nearby, in a roughly human shape and framed in the gateway to the cottage, alludes to the island legend that Jenkin has said he learned in childhood, of girls turned to stone for singing on the Sabbath. Despite its touches of folk horror, though, the film’s ambience is more haunting than terrifying. Past and present are fluid and the woman’s memory and imagination summon people who could not possibly be there. Defying any logical narrative, the film relies on poetic images and associations. It suggests that the most frightening thing in the world can be in your own mind.

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