Dir. Robert Eggers · Starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes, Kyla Nicolle, Shaun Clarke · Music Mark Korven
“There is enchantment in the light.”
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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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A descent into claustrophobic madness, this film is a stark black-and-white nightmare of isolation and psychological unraveling. It feels like a fever dream, heavy with foreboding and existential dread, as two men battle their sanity against the unforgiving sea and each other in a truly unique, unsettling experience.
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