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A ghostly story that’s not exactly a ghost story, Rose of Nevada is a typically imaginative film from the director Mark Jenkin. But here he has recognizable actors and a much more pronounced narrative than in his last feature, the thoroughly enigmatic Enys Men (2022). That’s not to say the plot is straightforward. It loops back on itself more than …

Mark Jenkin makes movies that feel unearthed from the deep, dark recesses of the subconscious, where names, faces, emotions, and events are tethered together by hazy associate links. As with 2022’s Enys Men, the Cornish writer/director’s Rose of Nevada—premiering at the Venice Film Festival—imagines water as a conduit for facilitating and strengthening those connections, as well as exists in a …