THE LIGHTHOUSE

Director: Robert Eggers

109, R

Screenwriter: Robert Eggers and Max Eggers

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman.

 

If you were lucky enough to catch director Robert Egger’s first movie (The Witch,) a nuclear family/horror movie set in 17th century New England, you have an idea of this distinctive filmmaker’s flair for escalating fear with a touch of black humor. In The Lighthouse, two men in 19th century are sent to live and work in an isolated island lighthouse. The drama slowly intensifies with the growing animosity between the veteran keeper (Willem Dafoe) and his younger, exploited assistant (Robert Pattinson). Spookily filmed backgrounds of ocean, mist and sky create the perfect atmosphere for a elemental conflict of generations.

“Two primal performances from Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson carry Robert Eggers’ second film to glory. Stunningly shot in black and white, The Lighthouse seeps into your bones with a power that won’t let go.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone.