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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 22 May 2019
'The Lighthouse,' with Robert Pattinson, illuminates Cannes

By JAKE COYLE a ghost in a lighthouse.
Associated Press Robert took it in a differ-
CANNES, France (AP) — ent direction that, given
Robert Eggers' "The Light- his deeply researched "The
house," starring Robert Witch" (which was written in
Pattinson and Willem Da- period dialect), inevitably
foe as turn-of-the-century turned toward the past.
lighthouse keepers, kicked "I started researching and
up a storm Sunday at the decided that I would make
Cannes Film Festival with a mine a period story, un-
wave-making, madhouse surprisingly," Eggers said.
period tale that seemingly "I came across a real ac-
washed ashore from an- count of two lighthouse
other era. keepers that had the same
"The Lighthouse," Eggers' name, one older and one
anticipated follow-up to young, and that inspired
the 2015 indie horror hit the idea of this two-hander
"The Witch," premiered in about identity that could
the festival's Directors' Fort- evolve into something
night section. mythological."
While "The Witch" adopted While a bigger budget
the psychological folktales than "The Witch," the scale
and terrors of a 1630s New was still small, allowing the
England family, "The Light- 35-year-old New Hamp-
house" is about a taciturn shire-native filmmaker
and weathered duo of complete artistic control
1890 seamen keeping the Director Robert Eggers, from left, actors Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson pose for portrait photo- — a major factor for Eg-
graphs for the film 'The Lighthouse' at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France,
light on a remote Maine Sunday, May 19, 2019. gers ultimately choosing
island. They gradually de- Associated Press "The Lighthouse" as his sec-
scend into the kind of iso- ond movie, he says. So he
lation-induced maritime screening if any animals done in my life." Lighthouse" is a unique and plunged, again, into fic-
madness that Herman Mel- were hurt during the pro- "Even the simplest things I darkly comic gothic night- tion and nonfiction period
ville would approve of. duction (some seagulls was doing, like pushing a mare. Critics received it in sources and dictionaries "of
Eggers shot it in black-and- have a rough go of it), Da- wheelbarrow around, it's Cannes as one of the festi- strange origins." "I like striv-
white, on 35mm, in a nearly foe laughed and gestured impossible," Pattinson said. val's certain highlights. A24 ing for the best interpreta-
square format and through at himself and his co-star. "Because of the nature of is expected to release it in tion of historical accuracy
early 20th-century lenses. "Yeah, these two animals," the story, you could really theaters later this year. because I feel like that is a
Filmed on a desolate spit of Dafoe said. push the physicality. There's After "The Witch," Eggers very high bar for all of my
volcanic rock on the south- The elements, both said, not too many movies or spent a few years develop- collaborators to reach," Eg-
ern edge of Nova Scotia, were grueling. Pattinson parts where you can really ing larger projects, including gers said. "We know what
"The Lighthouse" has al- recalled filming a scene in let fly with your body with- remake of 1922 "Nosferatu." it is. You're not inventing
ready developed the stuff which he runs over jagged out looking completely ri- But when those stalled, he things, you have clear
of legend as an audacious rock in period-appropriate diculous and out of place." turned to a contemporary goals. And I also like trans-
and harsh on-location pro- shoes as "one of the more Feverish and funny, bleak story that his brother, Max porting an audience to an-
duction. Eggers built a 70- terrifying things I've ever and bone-chilling, "The Eggers, had begun about other time and place.q
foot (20-meter) lighthouse
with a working beam that, The creator of 'Hannibal' returns with new monster
he proudly said in an in-
terview before the movie's
premiere, could shine for 16 By JEFF AYERS man named Hans-Peter goals, and to stay alive she
miles (25 kilometers). Associated Press Schneider and his col- will have to remember skills
"I had fun every day," said "Cari Mora" by Thomas Har- leagues rent the house she learned in her past that
Eggers. "But it was extreme- ris (Grand Central). to make a film, she knows she was trying to forget.
ly miserable. Filmmakers In Thomas Harris' new nov- what they are really after. Descriptions run between
and actors complain- el, Cari Mora escaped a Hans-Peter is a sociopath vague and excessive-
ing about suffering, but, I violent past and now lives like another famous Harris ly graphic. A couple of
mean, that's part of what's in Miami. She can stay in villain, but does not come scenes will remind readers
exciting about this. But it the United States thanks close to the nuance and of the brain eating scene
was very harsh and unfor- to a temporary protected sophistication of Hannibal from "Hannibal." The writ-
giving. I'm from New Eng- status, but she still fears be- Lecter. Lecter has elements ing veers between elegant
land. I don't mind the cold. ing sent back to her native of his personality and be- and repulsive.
I prefer to be cold than hot. country. havior that elevates him Readers who are fans of
But the wind on this rock She works as caretaker of above being a typical an- "Red Dragon" and "Silence
was relentless. There's no re- the house that was once tagonist, while Hans-Peter of the Lambs" will be disap-
lief. At times, the wind was owned by drug lord Pablo has a lye machine and pointed in Harris's first novel This cover image released by
so loud that you can't hear Escobar. The house has a weapons. They are both to not feature Lecter since Grand Central shows "Cari
the person five feet away reputation of not only be- monsters, but only one is his debut, "Black Sunday," Mora," a novel by Thomas
from you." ing haunted, but also the truly terrifying. which was released in 1975. Harris.
Pattinson and Dafoe cer- possibility of a treasure of The push for the treasure Ultimately this book will be Associated Press
tainly agreed. When asked $25 million of gold hidden puts Mora in the middle of remembered primarily for
by an audience mem- somewhere underneath ruthless people who will do its look at the Miami area plight of immigrants and
ber after the movie's first the residence. So when a anything to achieve their amid carnage, greed, the survival.q