Authenticity is key for BAFTA-winning director Mark Jenkin, whose “Rose of Nevada” premieres in Venice Film Festival‘s Horizons section Aug. 30, but all is not as it first appears. The ghost story stars George MacKay, Callum Turner and Francis Magee.
The film starts with the appearance of an unmanned fishing boat in the harbor of a village in Cornwall, on the West Coast of England. It transpires that the mysterious vessel, the Rose of Nevada, went missing with its crew three decades before. The village has since fallen on hard times, and its resident see the boat’s return as an omen that their fortunes could be about to turn.
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