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  • 2023
  • Neon
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2023
  • Neon
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbor. As his struggle to restore the family to their tra...

Directed By: Mark Jenkin

Written By: Mark Jenkin

  • 2023
  • Neon
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2023
  • Neon
  • 1 h 29 m

Bait

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Summary Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbor. As his struggle to restore the family to their tra...

Directed By: Mark Jenkin

Written By: Mark Jenkin

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100
Sep 2, 2019
It’s a genuine modern masterpiece, which establishes Jenkin as one of the most arresting and intriguing British film-makers of his generation.
By Mark Kermode FULL REVIEW
100
Sep 2, 2019
Ultimately a small tale of the struggles of ordinary working-class people against the tourist trade, in a wider political context, the film exists in a deeply contemporary space. Through its filmmaking craft, this debut remarkably operates in a timeless space.
By Alasdair Bayman FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 2, 2019
The engaging and defiantly hand-crafted, offbeat experiment Bait may be black and white, but its insights, thankfully, come in subtly graded shades of gray.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 2, 2019
Jenkin's heavily stylized debut is a disorienting experience at first, but it ultimately creates a boldly Expressionistic mood of uncanny beauty and mesmerizing otherness.
By Stephen Dalton FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 2, 2019
What an intriguing and unexpectedly watchable film. Bait is an experiment – and a successful one.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
75
May 25, 2023
Bait functions on a subliminal level. A concoction of illogical insert shots, mismatched sound, and nonlinear edits, it has little regard for a cinematically conventional sense of time and space.
By Josh Larsen FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 2, 2019
That the story doesn’t play like a soap, or indeed a Ken Loach film, is down to the director’s technical and narrative approach.
By Demetrios Matheou FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Early Day Films
Release Date Mar 31, 2023
Duration 1 h 29 m
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Tagline The view may be beautiful, but you can't eat it.
Website https://www.facebook.com/thebaitfilm/
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Awards

British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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