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A Man Moves Into a Lighthouse. Strangeness Ensues.

Robert Eggers’s new film, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, is an enthralling exploration of the mania of isolation.
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Through almost every moment of , there’s a howling noise in the background, a foghorn that grimly warns passing ships of danger ahead. That honking is the sonic foundation of new film, a striking exercise in psychological torment from the man who made in 2015. The remote, desolate lighthouse that Winslow (Robert Pattinson) moves into at the start of the film would be foreboding enough without those dreary, shuddering honks. But the way Eggers shoots

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