Mark Jenkin makes movies that feel unearthed from the deep, dark recesses of the subconscious, where names, faces, emotions, and events are tethered together by hazy associate links.

As with 2022’s Enys Men, the Cornish writer/director’s Rose of Nevada—premiering at the Venice Film Festival—imagines water as a conduit for facilitating and strengthening those connections, as well as exists in a netherworld that is somewhere between waking and sleeping. It’s a dreamy tale of loss and grief, death and resurrection, as well as a supernatural reverie about the mysterious relationship between the present and past—one in which the living are reborn as ghosts.

In an unidentified coastal village, Mike (Edward Rowe) is stunned to discover that the Rose of Nevada, a fishing ship that vanished with

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