Hell Is Other Popeyes: Gorgeous 'The Lighthouse' Sails Into Maritime Madness
An old salt (Willem Dafoe) and his young assistant (Robert Pattinson) descend into a surreal maelstrom of myth and madness as they maintain a lonely lighthouse.
Has abject misery ever been such fun to watch?
Has soul-sick dread ever looked so gorgeous?
As depicted in Robert Eggers' hauntingly hilarious new film, the life of two keepers who maintain a remote lighthouse — time and place unspecified, but most likely the late 1800s, off the New England coast — is one of ceaseless, back-breaking toil.
For one of them, anyway: Robert Pattinson's glum Ephraim Winslow is brand-new to the keeping game,
