The Lighthouse

Year:	2019
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Thriller, Horror, Drama
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	8.3 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	6 Have Seen


Director	Robert Eggers
Selected Cast	Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake
	Robert Pattinson as Ephraim Winslow
Producer	Robert Eggers
Soundtrack	Mark Korven

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The Lighthouse - Universal - UK (2020)

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Magic Marmalade 10th Feb 2023		Rated 8/10 This is a black business indeed! There's something strangely compelling about watching a couple of men alone together going stark staring crackers by degrees. The set up is very basic, therefore, as these two lighthouse keepers, strangers to each other, arrive on an isolated lighthouse island to... er... keep it, I guess... ...Willem Defoe's apparently grizzled old sea dog type, along with Patterson's young drifter / young buck newbie doing the initial slightly tense circling of each other in the "getting to know you" phase, within the power dynamic of mentor / master and student / dogsbody, before gradually breaking down, not only this tension, but then themselves and each other, personally and psychologically in a battle of wills that ends in madness. *Here be mad dragons me lad!* It really has a feeling of a Ben Wheatley movie (A Field In England / Hit List etc.), or one of those small, surreal nuggets like Berberian Studio, or the like, and certainly is a psychological horror movie, as it moves from tense, and generally strange through unsettling and odd, before landing neatly on hallucinatory and crazy. Relying, as it does, on the two leads here, both have to pull this off between them, and they do expertly, with Patterson moving from quiet, self contained and uncertain, to undone and venting very convincingly in this power dynamic... but it's Defoe who really nails it... The very broad, grizzled old wart character could be hammy very easily (and perhaps it is to an extent), but it works especially with a script that you can tell made his eyes light up when he read it, as this part is one for an actor to really get his teeth stuck into, with lengthy, poetic monologues he delivers with a mesmerising, captivating performance. It's another form that apparently ever brilliant A24 lot, who seem to be the only crew in town who still know how to make a proper movie outside the comic book formulas all too prevalent today. ...And there's a nice, evocative sea shanty to end with, all of which makes for a very haunting experience in all the finest traditions of this kind of movie. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



jaimeeduardo 11th Jun 2021

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