Enys Men (2022)

Another astonishing film well worth a late night after a long Thursday. Billed as folk horror, Mark Jenkin's film feels more like a psychological horror based on personal and community trauma. What happens to when a community and its individuals have been brutalized by a system and then abandoned when they and their services are deemed no longer necessary?

The cinematography--18mm film with disorienting, unfocused, and claustrophobic closeups--evokes the 1970s. The repetitive narrative (reminds me of a Phillip Glass composition) collapses time and events and figures.

For a good interview with the director, see Tara Judah's https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2023/interviews/enys-men-an-interview-with-mark-jenkin/ .

Well worth seeing once. Even more worth seeing twice to piece together the shattered pieces. 

The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum)

Our first film to see in 2015, The Imitation Game, was Morton Tyldum's highly fictionalized account of Alan Turing's contributions to deciphering Nazi code machine, Enigma.  Perhaps we were in the mood to view a somewhat sentimentalized account of misunderstood genius and were swept along with tripartite narrative, enough so that we didn't mind (too much) the obvious (even to us, the somewhat uninformed) historical inaccuracies (such as using correction fluid to change a typewritten document in 1951) or (even worse) Keira Knightley's presence in the film.  For useful accounts of the historical inaccuracies, see http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/dec/19/poor-imitation-alan-turing/ and www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/20/the-imitation-game-invents-new-slander-to-insult-alan-turing-reel-history.

Recommend with caveats.