“It's bad luck to leave a toast unfinished, lad.”

A young nomad accepts a demanding four week contract working in solitary with an intolerable Lighthouse Keeper. Immediately the desolation and psychological anguish begin to chip away at Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) as his demanding superior Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) seemingly creates obstacles to further complicate a hard day’s work. Their inability to maintain a consistent relationship only adds to the unanswered questions Winslow has about Wake’s specific practices and why only he is allowed to tend to the light.

Director Robert Eggers (also the writer & director of The VVitch) delivers another intricate tale of insanity amidst isolation and shares with us a compelling depth of background research that went into carefully structuring this film as Robert Eggers and his brother Max Eggers, wrote the script. There may be an endless number of times you could watch this film and always notice something new.

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