The Lighthouse

Movie

2019

1h 49m

English

Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, Horror

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7.3

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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.

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The Lighthouse

Movie

2019

1h 49m

English

Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, Horror

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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.

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Cast

Thomas Howard

Thomas Wake

Mermaid

Ephraim Winslow

Woman on the Rocks

Departing Wickie

Departing Assistant Wickie

Preston Hudson

Tender Mate

Jeff Cruts

Tender Mate

Directed By: Robert Eggers

Written By: Robert Eggers, Max Eggers

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Saint Pauly says...

4 years ago

Watching _The Lighthouse_ is like trying to tickle myself, I know what I'm supposed to be feeling but I know what's going on more than feel what's going on. And I'm not sure why. The cinematography is breathtaking, the acting is above par (Willem Dafoe shattered my low expectations of him) and the sound scaping is aural sex, yet still the effect the film had on me was more cerebral than psychological, and that's not what I've come to expect from Robert Eggers and A24.

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filmboicole says...

5 years ago

Mesmerizing, spellbinding, and strange. Pattinson gives an absolutely breathtaking performance in a film so hazy and rich that I was on the edge of my seat. This is the type of film I can only hope to experience when I go to the theater. A journey into the psyche and into the weird. I am on board with Eggers and wherever he wants to take us.

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GigaBerry says...

4 years ago

Some excellent cinematography. Some great monologues by Dafoe. But mostly, I’m left with a feeling of “What did I just watch...? And why...?”

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fawlty70 says...

5 years ago

I absolutely loved "The Witch" and was excited to see what director Eggers could do with two great actors and his great attention to detail and obvious talent. Well, turns out - not much. "The lighthouse" has fantastic cinematography, set decorations, costumes, and Dafoe and Pattinson are really digging into the material with gusto. The problem is that there's no discernible plot, nothing that happens on screen is particularly interesting, and it builds up to nothing. Probably the most disappointing movie of the year for me. I hope for his next movie, Eggers pays as much attention to the plot and story as he does to veracity of the setting and the characters.

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Bradym03

10/10 4 years ago

LIFF33 2019 #2

Time to spill the beans…’The Lighthouse’ is a masterpiece! I loved loved loved loved it! I loved every minute of it. One of my favorite movies of 2019 and I honestly don’t think anything can top it. A slow descent into madness that creeps into your subconscious and won’t More

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Xiofire

7/10 4 years ago

The Lighthouse has all the hallmarks of an Eggers movie in its first hour. Retro accents and dialogue, tight framing and cinematography and a plotline that oozes with mystery, horror and intrigue. Unfortunately, this is dropped shortly after those initial 60 minutes and is replaced with a scattersh More

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SWITCH.

4 years ago

I was worried that my enormously high expectations for 'The Lighthouse' would set me up for inevitable disappointment, but to my relief and awe, it somehow exceeded them. This is an extraordinary, baffling, hypnotic, maddening, hilarious, disturbing, disorienting, arousing, absolute mindfuck of a fi More

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4 years ago

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