Perhaps no director knows this better than Robert Eggers, whose last film The Witch, drew widely divided critical responses. Available.At the end of the world, it’s easy to lose your patience with those around, and even it’s even easier to lose your grip on reality. The Lighthouse stars Robert Pattinson (Tenet, The Batman) and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project). As two men, both lighthouse keepers, drive each other to the brink of madness in what amounts. Within minutes, The Lighthouse transports you to the hallucinatory, claustrophobic confines of a lighthouse on a remote island off New England in the late 19th century. Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman.
The Lighthouse follows two men, Ephraim Winslow ( Robert Pattinson) and Thomas Wake ( Willem Dafoe), as they go to tend a lighthouse in New England. Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star as two lighthouse keepers who begin to descend into madness when a storm. It’s not only the best horror film of the year, but it should earn one of its stars Willem Dafoe his Oscar.The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Max Eggers.It was an international co-production of the United States and Canada, with the film being shot in black-and-white with a nearly square 1.19:1 aspect ratio. The emotional foundation and dark turns of The Witch instantly made Eggers someone with great promise, and The Lighthouse looks to take another step on that journey for the director. Ultimately, the horror story of witches in the woods, set in Colonial America, took a back seat to the family drama unfolding in front of our eyes.
This will not be the first time the film visually plays with its audience and the cinematography from Jarin Blaschke delivers one of the most impressively shot films of the decade.What separates The Lighthouse from many films that want to punish their audiences, the Eggers brilliantly dissolve tension through the most primal methods. The nearly square frame, much smaller than a normal film’s 1.85:1, creates a sense of unease within the viewer and will disorient many. The Lighthouse is shot in black and white, adding a 1.19:1 aspect ratio to immediately put the audience in a state of unease. The authentic dialogue and sailor ditties help set the mood for the roller coaster of a film. Eggers co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, Max Eggers, and the two immediately dive into the nuance of the era. Language : English Runtime : 110 min Director : Robert Eggers Writers : Robert Eggers, Max Eggers Starring : Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia KaramanTwo lighthouse keepers (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) fight each other for survival and sanity on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
The two actors have such chemistry and passion, you wonder if they were born to play these roles.For Dafoe, he was undeniably born for this role. If you’ve ever spent time with a group of friends in a car for twenty-plus hours, you know that the experience is like a ticking timebomb before someone blows their lid. They thrive off each other, and the two-hander brilliantly allows them to raise the stakes in their own time. Even the spray of the ocean feels visceral, and further adds to the loneliness of the setting.You have to wonder what it was like on set between Pattinson and Dafoe, because each dives into their roles with a hunger to pull the intensity out of every word. Yet these textures, combined with the seemingly never-ending horns of the lighthouse, become the fabric that brings this rock in the middle of the sea to life. Dafoe’s character holds unwieldy power over the new wickie, and the ways in which he chooses to express that power can be odd.
Yet his intensity and gruff also make this one of the landmark performances in his career.Meanwhile, Pattinson steps up to match Dafoe’s intensity with a wild-eyed turn of his own. His voice can be so chilling, you would think it’s out of a scary storybook. Complete with a sailor’s accent and absurd beard, he embodies the character with strange and often upsetting methods. He tears into the dialogue like a starved animal, playing up the strange and absurd demeanor that has made him a star.
A meticulously crafted feature that uses every aspect of film to tell its story, The Lighthouse stands as a triumph in 2019. That lies at the heart of The Lighthouse‘s power and makes it one of the very best films of the year. Yet the events unfolding are so intriguing, he creates a hypnotic tension. He does everything he can to throw off his audience, and at some moments, even alienate them from his film.
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