New The Lighthouse Trailer Reveals More Madness for Dafoe and Pattinson
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A24 started this Monday morning on a dark note by releasing a new trailer for Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, a dark drama starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
The story centers on two lighthouse keepers on a remote New England island in the 1890s. Isolated within a toxic cyclone of howling wind, persistent fog and cramped quarters, the two men’s minds and actions begin to reflect the outside landscape; rocky as the shores and unpredictable as the crashing waves. The film was shot on 35mm in black and white. This choice seems to suit the story well, creating cavernous shadows on Dafoe and Pattinson’s faces as they react to hallucinations or realities yet to be revealed, and making the luminous title quite ironic.