The Duchy of Cornwall is a documentary which has been exempted from certification, but carried a U on its cinema release in 1938. She examines the flowers and logs notes in a journal: the temperature that day and the repeated observation ‘No Change’, but soon enough there will be something to report on.

The flower which the Volunteer is studying begins to grow a strange lichen, which, she soon finds, is growing on her too. It’s not really a traditional narrative piece, much more a kind of puzzle perhaps, and it’s very much a film that you begin to decode as the imagery and the sound soak in. Special features include an audio commentary by director Mark Jenkin and film critic Mark Kermode (2023); Mark Jenkin and Mary Woodvine in conversation with Mark Kermode (2022, 29 mins); Film Sounds (2023, 86 mins): Mark Jenkin and filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) discussing the subtleties of sound in film; Haunters of the Deep (1984, 61 mins): a Children’s Film Foundation adventure that shares many West Cornwall locations with Enys Men; Recording the Score (2022, 6 mins): Mark Jenkin at work on the film’s distinctive soundtrack; Mark Jenkin’s audio diaries (2022, 90 mins); The Duchy of Cornwall (1938, 15 mins): an iconic film from the vaults of the BFI National Archive and with the first pressing only, an illustrated booklet with a Director’s Statement. Bonus features include a commentary by Jenkin and critic Mark Kermode; an interview with the director and his lead Mary Woodvine, hosted by Kermode; a lengthy discussion on film sound between Jenkin and Berberian Sound Studio's Peter Strickland; the director's audio diaries; "Haunters of the Deep" (61 minutes), a Children's Film Foundation classic that was clearly an influence on Jenkin's work; and a Cornish travelogue short from the BFI archives. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered.Cover Notes: A wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower take a dark turn into the strange and metaphysical, forcing both her and viewers to question what is real and what is nightmare. At the start of this commentary track, Mark Kermode lays his cards on the table: Bait was his favourite film of its year and Enys Men is a masterpiece (which he has watched several times now) and will no doubt be one of his favourites of this year. Jenkin also personally processed the film, and occasional imperfections, such as scratches and spots and instances of light bleed, became part of the hand-made aesthetic. Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.

No doubt commercial considerations mean that they don’t release these sets on Blu-ray but once in a while a CFF (or in this case CFTF, as the organisation had become the Children’s Film and Television Foundation by then, namely 1984) production crosses the divide and appears in HD as a Blu-ray extra.

A wildlife volunteer’s (Mary Woodvine) daily observations of a rare flower take a dark turn into the strange and metaphysical, forcing both her and viewers to question what is real and what is nightmare. That said, he does talk a lot about the themes of the films, such as the coexistence of past and present and future, but some of the non-linearity is due to making use of what he had available when he came to edit the film. A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Filmed on location around the disused tin mines of West Penwith, it is also an ode to Cornwall's rich folklore and natural beauty.