The Lighthouse

Filmed in black and white, this horror film transports us to a little island on the high seas of Maine, Nova Scotia, at the beginning of the 20th century. There, the only two main characters of this film, a veteran lighthouse keeper (Williem Dafoe, 'At Eternity's Gate') and his young assistant (Robert Pattinson, 'High Life'), will have to live together for four weeks. The tranquil state in which their lives appear to unfold changes forever when a supernatural event linked to one of the most well-known and infamous maritime myths hits the coast.

'The Lighthouse' is hailed as a feature film that examines the nuances of power and dominance in the relationship between its two characters, two men that little by little find themselves pushed to brutal behaviour balanced with rare moments of mutual understanding under the effects of alcohol. Meanwhile, the isolation in which they have to live generates a certain sexual tension underpinned by a morbid desire for death as the progressive spiral of secrets begins to weigh heavy on their consciences.

The film is directed by Robert Eggers ('The Witch'), an expert in psychological horror cinema, who will immerse the viewers in a perceptive and paranoid chaos in which the limit boundary the real world and the imaginary world is inevitably blurred.