ENYS MEN – a film by Mark Jenkin – (limited spoilers) ⁓
Thought-provoking and beautiful, ENYS MEN is set in April, 1973 on a deserted island off the Cornish coast, where a lone Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) monitors the status of a rare flower. None of the characters is named, because the story isn’t about them; it’s about the island. Enys Men means “stone island” in Cornish. (In Welsh, it means “enemy man”.) The nearest islands to where it was filmed are the Isles of Scilly, which according to legend were once connected to Cornwall by the Kingdom of Lyonesse until it was swallowed by the sea in a single night.
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