THE LIGHTHOUSE

Be aware this is strange, claustrophobic and dark.Great film!!!

This money is so bizarre and great that it is now one of my favourite films. Just make sure you like my lobster.

Willem Dafoe is one of the most outstanding out there. Always pushes the envelope be it this, Antichrist and many others. Pattinson is the real surprise here after all that Emo vampire nonsense he'd kind of been stuck a little. Then he did this, Good time, Tenet and now The Batman. Bravo.

during lockdown, should one wish to tip oneself over the edge of mild depression and into near-suicidal blues, this is the movie for you! I received it in good order, andhave viwed it. Willem Dafoe is one of my favourite actors, but even he couldn't makeme love this film.

Arrow’s new edition of Robert Eggers’ mysterious story of two men slowly becoming dangerous to each other on a remote lighthouse provides a great new shined up version of the film for fans.Picture quality is excellent, and you quickly adjust to the specific picture ratio chosen for the film. The film itself is one to be seen and decided upon for one’s self as there are several ways to view it.The extras included are very solid, there are two commentaries. One by Robert Eggers and one by others although neither are outstanding unfortunately, but there is a 71 minute multi-part new making of documentary, plus a 20 minute video essay by Kat Ellinger and a 37 minute documentary featuring the cast and crew covering the films production and themes. Then there’s some deleted scenes (just a couple), trailers and photo gallery plus in the original release, some art cards, a double sided art poster and a booklet with essays etc on the film.Fairly good value overall just lacking a perfect score due to the disappointing commentaries.

Super!

'Masterpiece', an overused noun, though not in the case of 'The Lighthouse'.Robert Eggers second feature following his superb, brooding, malevolent New England folk horror 'The Witch', is absolutely extraordinary . . . Once again Eggers turns to a time and place embued with folklore and mythology and unleashes his nautical, delerious pressure cooker of a nightmare. Willem Defoe and Robert Pattinson as a pair of Lighthouse keepers on a godforsaken rock give stratospheric performance's beyond Oscar worthy, employing the richest & at times the most hilarious antediluvian of dialogue (as stated in the end credits, the dialogue was inspired & taken from period texts, Herman Melville & lighthouse keepers journals ...) - they are simply a spellbinding joy to behold. It's a wonderful salty, barmy, drunken, brawling, surreal oddity of a tale with a whiff of Lynch and Lovecraft! (& methane!). Bold, knockout monochrome cinematography evokes German expressionism, whilst the perculiar small framing further lends it both a silent movie and pictorial quality that is at once intensely intimate/claustrophobic and yet epic! Not an easy film to label or define, but it's one seriously artistic, hell of a maelstrom of a movie. Sublime.

(No spoilers)This is a beautifully shot film with incredible performances by the two protagonists / antagonists Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe and I'm wrestling with the possibility that this may be the best 'Arthouse' film I have ever seen.If you're not familiar with any Greek mythology or can't figure out allegory, metaphor or period dialogue then this probably isn't a film that will interest you but I personally found it endlessly enthralling and captivating.The fact that it is shot in black and white only adds to the experience as it delivers visual richness and a period tone which can only be dreamed of by full color films. The sound design, score and cinematography is on another level compared to mainstream cinema films and I applaud Robert Eggers for not going mainstream with his second major release.I consider the first film from Eggers ('The Witch') to be among my favorite films of all time but The Lighthouse may now have taken top spot. It will take an incredible cinematic experience for me to say what my new favorite (Arthouse) film is.Although I can imagine many viewers seeing The Lighthouse as a boring, confusing mess of a film I consider it to be the exact opposite and the weaving of Greek and (possible?) Norse mythology really spoke to me on a deep level.It's not a spoiler to point out the following to anyone who has not seen the film (look up characters mentioned from mythology):Consider the possibility that Robert Pattinson's character is Prometheus from Greek mythology and was punished by Zeus for stealing fire (or knowledge) from the Gods. He was chained to a rock and had his liver pecked out by an eagle every day. Every night his liver would re-grow and the next day his liver would be pecked out again by the eagle. The eagle represents Zeus. Prometheus was eventually saved by Heracles (Hercules). In The Lighthouse a rescue ship is expected but never appears and the final scene has definite nods to Prometheus' fate.Also, the 'Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner' references the death of a sea bird leading to tragedy and ruin - that is certainly evident in The Lighthouse as a huge storm appears to prevent the rescue and the one-eyed seagull which is constantly watching Pattinson's character could even be a reference to Odin's ravens who were his spies. Odin is often known as the 'one eyed God'.Dafoe's character sometimes speaks of an unknown character called 'the supervisor' - could that be the seagull? could the seagull be Odin or even Zeus (who punishes Prometheus)? We're possibly dealing with two different mythologies here...Willem Dafoe's character is most likely Proteus who was a shape-shifting aquatic Titan from Greek mythology - in The Lighthouse at least one scene definitely shows him shape-shifting.....or is it just Robert Pattinson's character imagining that Willem Dafoe's character has shape-shifted? By that point both men have lost the ability to think rationally so it is left open to interpretation by the viewer....Then there is the introduction of a Siren (Mermaid) - is that another manifestation of Proteus or is it just a hallucination from Robert Pattinson's character (Prometheus) as he loses his mind in the quest for fire / enlightenment?There are even elements of chaos magick in here from Pattinson's interaction with the Mermaid effigy.".....Ye 'ad to spill yer beans....."It hit me two weeks later what that statement from Willem Dafoe was referring to.Oooooooohhhhh....it's all good stuff and I definitely recommend that anyone of an open mind views this film. It's certainly not for everyone (hence the 1 star reviews) but for anyone who can comprehend what it is saying it's a visual, audio and cinematic feast which has to be experienced.Some of the monologues (delivered by both actors) are simultaneously funny, impressive and sinister but all the time enthralling - I love this film.