Cannes 2022 Review: “ENYS MEN” is a Visionary Slow Burn Folk Horror
Ryan Coleman, our man at Cannes, looks at the surreal new film from visionary director Mark Jenkin.
Ryan Coleman, our man at Cannes, looks at the surreal new film from visionary director Mark Jenkin.
"Anthony [Vaccarello, Creative Director at Yves Saint Laurent] proposed to support me if I had any idea for a short film. Two weeks later, in five days, we improvised this modest essay about beliefs and the art of filmmaking. Now the 51-minute baby is ready to scream…Thank God, cinema is light flashing 24 frames per second." - Gaspar Noé
Director Russell Owen's latest is an atmospheric slow burn with an aural edge.
Each attempts a game-changer of a twist in its second half, in both cases raising more questions than they offer answers.
A mixed-media tale of two sets of Southern Californian young people who find themselves in the wrong place at the right time, MALIBU HORROR STORY is genuinely frightening, shocking, and entertaining, even in the face of its own moral ambiguity.