![]() While drunk, Winslow confesses to Wake that his real name is Thomas Howard, and he assumed the identity of Ephraim Winslow, his cruel foreman in Canada whom he had watched drown without helping, because Winslow had a clean record. Winslow tries to steal the lantern room keys from Wake as he sleeps one day and contemplates murdering him Winslow soon finds the one-eyed head of Wake's previous wickie in a lobster trap. The pair unearth a crate at the lighthouse's base that Winslow assumes contains reserve rations, but it is full of bottles of alcohol.Īs the storm continues to rage, Winslow and Wake get drunk every night and alternate between moments of intimacy and hostility. Winslow is not worried because he thinks the tender is only a day late, but Wake states that they have already been stranded for weeks. He flees back to the cottage, where Wake informs him the storm has spoiled their rations. As Winslow empties the chamber pots, he notices a body washed up on the shore and discovers it is a mermaid, which wakes and screams at him. Winslow and Wake spend the night getting drunk, and the storm prevents the lighthouse tender from collecting them the next day. He is attacked by the one-eyed gull and brutally slaughters it, after which the wind changes direction, and a fierce storm hits the island. The day before the scheduled departure, Winslow discovers a dead gull inside the cistern, bloodying the drinking water. After two weeks on the island, he reveals he is from Maine and was previously a lumberjack in Canada, now seeking a new trade. Winslow begins to dream of sea demons and logs floating in the sea. ![]() He says he noticed a one-eyed gull bothering Winslow, but tells Winslow not to harm it, as gulls are reincarnated sailors, and killing them brings bad luck. One evening while dining, Wake reveals to Winslow that his previous assistant perished after losing his sanity. Winslow observes that, every night after ascending the lighthouse, Wake removes his clothes before the light. Wake, a former sailor, immediately proves to be very demanding, and he has Winslow do such jobs as emptying chamber pots, maintaining the machinery, carrying heavy kerosene tanks up the stairs, and painting the lighthouse, while barring Winslow from the lantern room. In 1890s New England, Ephraim Winslow arrives on a small, rocky island far off of the coast for his first four-week stint as a "wickie" ( lighthouse keeper), under the supervision of the experienced Thomas Wake. Among its numerous accolades, the film was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 92nd Academy Awards and the 73rd British Academy Film Awards. It grossed over $18 million, against an $11 million budget, and received widespread critical acclaim, with particular praise for the direction, visuals, and performances of Dafoe and Pattinson. ![]() The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States by A24 on October 18, 2019. It was shot in black-and-white, with a nearly-square 1.19:1 aspect ratio. Principal photography took place in Nova Scotia, Canada, beginning in April 2018 and lasting slightly over a month. The Lighthouse draws visually from photography of 1890s New England, maritime-themed French cinema from the 1930s, and symbolist art. Robert Eggers assisted the development when Max was unable to complete the adaptation of "The Light-House", sourcing the plot from a nineteenth-century legend of an accident at a lighthouse in Wales. The idea for the film first emerged from Max Eggers' re-envisioning of Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished short story of the same name. ![]() The film has defied categorization in media, and interpretations of it range from a horror film, a psychological thriller, a survival film, and a character study, among others. It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers in turmoil after being marooned at a remote New England outpost by a wild storm. The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Max Eggers. ![]()
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