A purgatorial descent into madness woven between nautical superstition and Promethean myth. The plight of two lighthouse keepers is forcefully, arrestingly, delivered by Dafoe and Pattinson.
Dense and unrelenting, Eggers once more taps into the atmospheric storytelling channeled in The Witch. Repression, solitude and judgement flavour this bleak tale, all at once a period piece while being unmoored in time and space.
