Two couples and a surrogate lay bare the complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we think about motherhood.
The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay coauthored with his brother Max Eggers. It stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as turmoiled nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers stranded at a remote New England outpost by a violent storm. The film has defied categorization in media, and interpretations of it range among horror film, psychological thriller, or character study, among others.
