Director: Robert Eggers
Writer: Robert Eggers, Max Eggers
Producers: Robert Eggers, Youree Henley, Lourenço Sant’ Anna, Rodrigo Teixeira, Jay Van Hoy
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe
Music: Mark Korven
Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke
Editor: Louise Ford
Cert: 15
Running time: 109mins
Year: 2019
What’s the story: New England, sometime in the 1890s. Two men battle personal demons and each other while tending a storm-beaten lighthouse.
What’s the verdict: As in his 2015 directorial debut The Witch, Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse grapples with the theme of spiritual annihilation, though in a way that’s altogether wetter, wilder, and weirder.
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe star as two lighthouse keepers, or “wicki...
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