The Lighthouse

 The Lighthouse 2019

• Director: Robert Eggers
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Robert Pattinson – Tenet, Queen of the Desert, Twilight, Remember Me, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Willem Dafoe – Murder on the Orient Express, John Wick, Fireflies in the Garden, Paris je t’aime, American Dreamz, Manderlay, the Aviator, Once upon a Time in Mexico, American Psycho, eXistenZ, Lulu on the Bridge, The English Patient, Wild at Heart, Cry-Baby, Born on the Fourth of July, Mississippi Is Burning, The Last Temptation of Christ, Platoon, Streets of Fire
• Why? I like lighthouses.
• Seen: 27 March 2022

Two men serving four weeks as keepers of a remote lighthouse in the 19^th century. From wariness to tension and hostility to drunken hysterical friendship to violence.

It’s starkly and stormily filmed in black and white with the constant moaning of a foghorn a foreboding background. The suspense and eeriness grow, and it takes on a surrealistic nightmarish tone.

Ultimately, I don’t see the point but maybe there isn’t one. For its atmospheric harsh beauty and the strong performances of the two actors: 

3 ½ * of 5