474 - Rose of Nevada

Eavesdropping at the Movies · May 14, 2026 · 33m

Seven years ago, we disagreed with the thrust of what Mark Jenkin's Bait had to say about the world as it is and as it ought to be, but appreciated its expressive strength. It was a film with substance. You could grapple with it. Rose of Nevada broadly conveys the same messages, but, as they derive primarily from the film's setting and less so its plot, is less forceful and argumentative about them, requiring us to accept them in shorthand and take them as read. Fair enough, perhaps - why make the same film twice? - but the story to which Jenkin's perspective is here allied is of little…