Bait (2019)

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Movie
Original title Bait
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Mark Jenkin
script Mark Jenkin
production Kate Byers ,
Linn Waite
music Mark Jenkin
camera Mark Jenkin
cut Mark Jenkin
occupation

Bait is a film drama by Mark Jenkin that premiered on February 9, 2019 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival in the International Forum of New Films. The film opened in cinemas in the United Kingdom and Ireland on August 30, 2019. It was released in German cinemas on October 24, 2019.

action

In a fishing village on the Cornish coast , as in the entire region, gentrification has made the traditional fishermen's way of life disappear and the locals have fallen out among themselves. One relies on tourism as a source of income, the other struggles with fishing. This strife is also evident in the Ward family. While Martin Ward tries to stay afloat as a fisherman, his brother Steve has misused his father's old cutter as an excursion boat. One has to cope with increasingly meager income and outdated equipment, the other with unsympathetic party tourists. Holiday apartments were set up in her father's old house on the harbor, which is now owned by the Leigh family.

Not only does Martin clash with the wealthy tourists from London, but also with the locals, since he sees his livelihood endangered and family cohesion as a threat. He also messes with the new owners of the cottage where they grew up.

production

The shooting took place at Charlestown harbor on the south coast of Cornwall

Directed by Mark Jenkin. who also wrote the script and also acted as cameraman and film editor. He also wrote the film music. Jenkin teaches at Falmouth University in Cornwall. Bait is usually the name of the bait used when fishing .

Jenkin shot the film in black and white and 16mm. In the film there are numerous close-ups of fish, nets, lobsters, rubber boots, knots and catch baskets. The recordings were developed by hand.

The film was shot in autumn 2017 exclusively in Cornwall, for example in Charlestown and at various locations in West Penwith. Mark Jenkin orientated himself visually - partly out of artistic, partly out of technical necessity - on old documentaries like those of the British filmmaker Humphrey Jennings . For his work he chose a Bolex 16 mm camera with manual operation and had to deal with the associated restrictions. Since the lock had to be held down by hand, there were only two options for what he could do with his other hand. So he could either pan, tilt or focus the camera, which had an impact on the aesthetics of the film. The actors' voices were not recorded during filming, but were recorded later by the respective actors.

The film premiered on February 9, 2019 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival in the International Forum of New Cinema. In the US, the film premiered on March 29 and 30, 2019 at New Directors / New Films, a series of films jointly presented by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. At the end of April 2019 it was presented at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz. June 2019 he was running the Edinburgh International Film Festival , in July 2019 at the Galway Film Fleadh, late July and early August 2019 at the Jerusalem Film Festival , and in August 2019 at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The film opened in cinemas in the United Kingdom and Ireland on August 30, 2019. The cinema release in Germany was on October 24, 2019. In March 2020 it should be shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival . A few days before the start of the festival, due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was postponed to an unknown time, including the presentation of the film.

reception

Reviews

So far, the film has won over all Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 8.5 out of a possible 10 points.

Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter notes that the frame story feels like classic neorealism, but there are other interesting layers where Mark Jenkin uses experimental montage techniques, a Guy Maddin style, retro pastiche, and English folk horror tropes.

Julian Weber from the taz writes, in quick succession, almost like in a flicker film , one sees meager activities from the world of work, in an aesthetic that does not gloss over anything. With this, Jenkin succeeded in making one of the surprise films of the Berlinale 2019. Bait finds a very poetic narrative form for the unequal distribution of wealth, Weber continues: “Brute cuts, flashbacks, dialogues that are cut abruptly against each other create a pull. The rough world on the Cornish coast is framed with grainy images, shot in 16mm black and white format by a Bolex camera . ”In doing so, Jenkin manages to incorporate something spiritual into the images, as if the sea monsters were in the images at the Wall in the pub come alive and protectively intervene in the action. The film will mix the chamber play -Beschaulichkeit of old British Kitchen-sink dramas with strict aesthetic of Robert Bresson , and the eerie rest, kill the Drone soundtrack with a harmonium as an essential pillar instrument.

Esther Buss explains at Spiegel Online that Mark Jenkin is not looking for the analysis, but the expression: hurt, anger, resentment, incomprehension. The assembly is also completely riotous: “The lamented loss of tradition finds its form in coarse-grained, hand-developed black and white images on 16mm. Film and fishing trade as complicity. "

Tim Lindemann from epd Film thinks that, despite the formalistic style, there is a bit of the spirit of social realism in Bait : “The empathic look that the film throws at the seafaring working class of Cornwall and its displacement by the nouveau riche Londoners certainly corresponds to the raw visualization of society Injustice that has long been rightly associated with British independent cinema - until the late 90s the cynical gangster films of the Guy Ritchie brand took over. ”With his dry humor and his convincing staging of everyday class conflicts, Bait acts as the latest example of a general tendency in Britain Indie film, according to Lindemann: "The class consciousness of the social-realistic Kitchen Sink drama is retained, visually and narrative, however, one opens up new experiments or applies the familiar style to new contexts." Lindemann writes on the subject of Bait , im Unknown social context Inequalities, a devastating austerity policy and, last but not least, the disastrous Brexit process, it is not surprising that current English mainstream cinema is largely practicing escapism . Dominik Kamalzadeh from Standard remarks on how Jenkin shows these two fronts, in which one also recognizes that of the Brexit-torn country, is humorous and artistically clever.

Film critics have often compared Bait with the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , especially because of the grainy black and white of the images and the soundtrack that was added later, in terms of montage and dramaturgy, but also with films by Sergei Eisenstein .

Use in school lessons

The online portal kinofenster.de recommends Bait for the subjects English, German , politics, art and geography and offers materials for the film for the classroom. Philipp Bühler wrote there that the students in politics and geography as well as in the artistic subjects could discuss how the contrasts between tradition and modernity are also expressed in the assembly: "If, for example, the new owners put the sparkling wine cold for the guests while Martin fights for survival with its networks, the abstract concept of gentrification is given tangible expression. "

Awards (selection)

In the year's best list of the British Film Institute published the film magazine Sight & Sound is Bait number 8 in the best films of 2019. The following is a selection of other awards and nominations.

British Academy Film Awards 2020

British Independent Film Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best British Independent Film
  • Nomination for Best Director (Mark Jenkin)
  • Nomination for Best Film Editing (Mark Jenkin)
  • Breakthrough Producer Award (Kate Byers and Linn Waite)

Crossing Europe Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination in the Competition Fiction competition (Mark Jenkin)

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019

  • Nominated for Best British Feature Film for the Michael Powell Award

European Film Festival Seville 2019

  • Award for best film in the Permanent Revolutions section (Mark Jenkin)

Galway Film Fleadh 2019

  • Nomination in the International Feature Competition

Stockholm International Film Festival 2019

  • Award for best director in Stockholm XXX Competition (Mark Jenkin)

International Istanbul Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for the Golden Tulip

London Critics' Circle Film Awards 2020

  • Nomination for Best British / Irish Film
  • Nomination in the Breakthrough British / Irish film-maker category for the Philip French Award (Mark Jenkin)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josh Slater-Williams: "With Digital You Have to Spend a Lot of Money Before It Becomes Free": Mark Jenkin on His Hand-Processed 16mm 'Bait'. In: filmmakermagazine.com, August 30, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Julian Weber: Berlinale “Bait”: Fidgeting fish, flying fists. In: taz.de, February 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Florian Moser: Crossing Europe 2019: Bait. In: subtext.at, April 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Bait. In: arsenal-berlin.de. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ Bait: The Team. In: baitfilm.co.uk. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
  6. ↑ http://www.earlydayfilms.com/portfolio/bait/
  7. ↑ Lee Trewhela: Kernow King big screen debut Bait to premiere at Berlin International Film Festival. In: cornwalllive.com, January 25, 2019.
  8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eBWSaw93RU (video)
  9. ↑ Chloe Lizotte: Interview: Mark Jenkin. In: filmcomment.com, March 27, 2019.
  10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eBWSaw93RU (video)
  11. ↑ Steve Dollar: New Directors / New Films 2019 Critic's Notebook: Monos, Manta Ray, Bait. In: filmmakermagazine.com, April 1, 2019.
  12. ↑ Bait. In: cineuropa.org. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  13. ^ Program of the Edinburgh International Film Festival . Retrieved May 30, 2019 (PDF; 83.8 MB)
  14. ^ 31st Galway Film Fleadh program. (PDF; 14.6 MB)
  15. ↑ Bait. In: jff.org.il. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
  16. ↑ Bait. In: miff.com. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
  17. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/271156.html
  18. ↑ "Bait" by Mark Jenkin. In: arsenal-berlin.de, December 2019.
  19. ↑ Kate Erbland: SXSW 2020 Announces More Feature Film Additions, Including Robust Midnight Slate and Sundance Hits. In: indiewire.com, February 5, 2020.
  20. ↑ Ben Sisario and Julia Jacobs: South by Southwest Is Canceled as Coronavirus Fears Scuttle Festival. In: The New York Times, March 6, 2020.
  21. ↑ Bait. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  22. ↑ Stephen Dalton, 'Bait': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, February 20, 2019.
  23. ↑ Esther Buss: Berlinale 2019: It's worth it !. In: Spiegel Online, February 16, 2019.
  24. ^ Till Lindemann: Tristes Leben, strong cinema: The new British social realism. In: epd Film, April 23, 2019.
  25. ↑ Dominik Kamalzadeh: "Crossing Europe": Cinematic highlights from a proven continent. In: Der Standard, April 25, 2019.
  26. ↑ a b Berlinale Highlights. In: art-in-berlin.de. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
  27. ↑ Peter Bradshaw: Bait review - hypnotic take on tourists ruining Cornwall. In: The Guardian, February 9, 2019.
  28. ^ Philipp Bühler: Bait. In: kinofenster.de, October 22, 2019.
  29. ↑ http://beta.blickpunktfilm.de/details/445964
  30. ↑ Alex Ritman: Armando Iannucci's 'David Copperfield' Leads 2019 British Independent Film Awards Nominations. In: The Hollywood Reporter, October 30, 2019.
  31. ^ David González: Martin Eden emerges triumphant at the Seville Film Festival. In: cineuropa.org, November 16, 2019.
  32. ↑ Winners at Stockholm International Film Festival 2019. In: cision.com, November 15, 2019.
  33. ↑ http://film.iksv.org/en/the-38th-istanbul-film-festival-2019/bait
  34. ^ Andrew Pulver: The Souvenir leads nominations for London critics' circle film awards. In: The Guardian, December 17, 2019.