The Lighthouse with Robert Eggers | Picturehouse

Sam Clements talks to director Robert Eggers about his new film, The Lighthouse. In cinemas now.  Acclaimed filmmaker Robert Eggers (The Witch) returns with a hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers clinging onto their sanity on a mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) and Tom Wake (Willem Dafoe) are beginning a four-week stretch of duty at the lighthouse. The two men veer wildly between enmity, comradeship, father-son intimacy and hatred. But they are keeping secrets from one another and, on this wind-lashed, uttermost spot, the tension mounts. Visually stunning, stark and unforgiving. ★★★★★ “A swirling descent into madness that takes the breath away… you can almost taste the salt on your lips.” – Time Out