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Rose of Nevada review: This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed

Rose of Nevada review: This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed

George MacKay (Nick, left) and Callum Turner (Liam) return home, in a way Ian Kingsnorth Courtesy BFI Rose of NevadaMark JenkinUK cinemas now; US cinemas, 19 June Time moves strangely in lifeless places – that much is clear in Rose of Nevada, the new film from director Mark Jenkin. It’s set in a fishing village in Cornwall, UK, a place stripped of its industry and inhabitants. Amid empty pubs and abandoned moorings, the flotsam and jetsam of former prosperity, a few haunted souls remain. Even the ocean is empty. What better place to set a ghost story than a ghost town? After all, what are ghosts, if not an accident of time? There’s a good reason why this village seems to exist outside conventional chronology, it turns out. Three decades earlier, when life was good, a fishing vessel and its short-handed crew fell victim to the sea. The loss of the men pervades the village still. Nothing was ever recovered and the tragedy never abated. That is, until one day, the cherry-red Rose of Nevada …