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Robert Eggers’ ‘The Lighthouse’ Getting Rave Reviews At Cannes

Director’s Fortnight

I’ve literally just come out of the very first screening of Robert Eggers’ new one, The Lighthouse, in Cannes. Oh wow. It’s in the slot that was occupied by Gaspar Noe’s Climax last year, and this one was equally as intense – perfect for a rainy Sunday morning in the south of France. Just, wow!

I will just say that this is Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson at their absolute best – the latter in particular – a dank, sodden black and white nightmare – the best film I’ve seen in Cannes this year. The film is remarkable and the critics went crazy for it as the final credits rolled (just before Eggers, Dafoe and Pattinson took to the stage to take their applause.

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The film, co-financed by New Regency and A24, has been acquired by Focus Features for international release. We presume that it will debut later in the year.

The film’s official description from Cannes is as follows:

From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Here are some of the reactions from Twitter which started to appear as we walked away onto the street, desperately attempting to type our own into our portable devices as we navigate the hoards of Pattinson fans outside.

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