Bait (2019)

Directed by

Mark Jenkin

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 109 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Cornish fisherman is pushed to the brink as wealthy outsiders take over his village. The film focuses on his mounting frustration and the deepening conflict between locals and tourists.

grittytenseclaustrophobicsocially consciousslow-burnvisceralmelancholicatmospheric

What happens

Bait is a 2019 British drama film written, directed, shot, edited, and scored by Mark Jenkin. It stars Edward Rowe as a struggling fisherman in a Cornish fishing village, and deals with rising tensions between the locals and tourists. Set against a backdrop of second homes, short-term lets, and gentrification, it has been interpreted as a critique of precarity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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