Robert Eggers’ second feature film, The Lighthouse, is a kaleidoscopic descent into madness that is as much fun as it is disturbing. Egger’s previous film, The Witch, was fraught with family peril and an ever-present sense of impending doom. That same atmospheric dread is present in The Lighthouse, but Eggers has pared away the complexity of family dynamics to reveal something altogether more raw, immediate, and disorienting.  Egger’s choice to film in black and white and in an archaic… Read more