Film
Bait
- Director
- Mark Jenkin
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 89 mins
This first feature from Totterdown’s Early Day Films, founded by BAFTA winning producers Kate Byers and Linn Waite, got off to a flying start by becoming the only UK film selected for the Berlinale Forum back in February. Since then, Bait has gone on to attract further acclaim, including a four-star review in The Guardian and a rave review in Little White Lies (“One of the most thrillingly original British films in years”).
Hand-crafted using a 1976 Bolex camera and 16mm Kodak monochrome film stock, Mark Jenkin’s film is a narratively unconventional story of structural change in a picturesque coastal village in Cornwall, centred on a fisherman who’s fallen out with his brother on whether the family boat should be used for fishing or ferrying day-trippers about. It’s back on screen in the Watershed’s Films That Love the Cinema season, celebrating the ‘shed’s welcome post-lockdown return to action.
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