The Lighthouse
1 Oscar Nominations
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Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
What critics thought
Eggers' two-hander is broadly admired for its hypnotic 1.19:1 black-and-white cinematography and the volcanic chemistry between Dafoe and Pattinson, but critics divided sharply on whether its dense layering of myth, symbol, and atmosphere adds up to anything beyond virtuoso craft — some found it a gripping descent into madness, others felt the allegory grew vaguer as it accumulated.
“the movie, building on The Witch, proves that Robert Eggers possesses something more than impeccable genre skill. He has the ability to lock you into the fever of what's happening onscreen.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
“script is barnacled with resemblances to Coleridge, Shakespeare, Melville – and there's also some staggeringly cheeky black-comic riffs and gags and the two of them resemble no-one so much as Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett: Steptoe and Son in hell.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“fails to give us the one thing that might have sustained an audience's interest over the course of 109 excruciating minutes: a compelling story.”
Mick LaSalle·San Francisco Chronicle
“The Lighthouse is at its strongest when it resembles the dark comedy of a Beckett play, complete with earthy scatological humor. [...] But as the mythological references pile up and the forbidden light atop the tower accrues ever more (and ever vaguer) symbolic meaning, the film sometimes seems funny [...] not because of but in spite of the filmmakers' intentions”
Dana Stevens·Slate
“experiment than conducive to eliciting meaning.”
The Guardian
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Cast & Crew
DirectorRobert Eggers
StarringRobert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes, Kyla Nicolle
ComposerMark Korven
The Lighthouse
1 Oscar Nominations
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
What critics thought
Eggers' two-hander is broadly admired for its hypnotic 1.19:1 black-and-white cinematography and the volcanic chemistry between Dafoe and Pattinson, but critics divided sharply on whether its dense layering of myth, symbol, and atmosphere adds up to anything beyond virtuoso craft — some found it a gripping descent into madness, others felt the allegory grew vaguer as it accumulated.
“the movie, building on The Witch, proves that Robert Eggers possesses something more than impeccable genre skill. He has the ability to lock you into the fever of what's happening onscreen.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
“script is barnacled with resemblances to Coleridge, Shakespeare, Melville – and there's also some staggeringly cheeky black-comic riffs and gags and the two of them resemble no-one so much as Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett: Steptoe and Son in hell.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“fails to give us the one thing that might have sustained an audience's interest over the course of 109 excruciating minutes: a compelling story.”
Mick LaSalle·San Francisco Chronicle
“The Lighthouse is at its strongest when it resembles the dark comedy of a Beckett play, complete with earthy scatological humor. [...] But as the mythological references pile up and the forbidden light atop the tower accrues ever more (and ever vaguer) symbolic meaning, the film sometimes seems funny [...] not because of but in spite of the filmmakers' intentions”
Dana Stevens·Slate
“experiment than conducive to eliciting meaning.”
The Guardian
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Cast & Crew
DirectorRobert Eggers
StarringRobert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes, Kyla Nicolle
ComposerMark Korven
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