The Lighthouse (2019)

There are two of "The Lighthouse" released in latest years, both inspired by the same incident. At some point during the 19th century on a small island close to the coast of Wales two lighthouse keepers got stranded from any passing ship due to a storm that kept going for weeks. In brief, history says that one of them died in an accident and the other went through a terrible episode of cabin fever, and never recovered completely. The first movie of something like three years ago is apparently a more accurate representation of the events, the one we have here being just loosely based = indeed, we have two lighthouse keepers isolated somewhere, but both of them slowly advance in their madness. Actually, half of the movie is the prologue for that, and half of the movie is the effective manifestation. In other words, what we have here is a sort of "symphony of madness". In some sense might be seen as a horror, in some other sense like a sort of psychoanalysis of a human being in isolation, but in any of these senses I'd say it finally fails. Maybe I'm subjective because I didn't like it. What I can objectively say is that leaving aside the subject and the action development, it's the only movie until now that convinced me that Robert Pattinson can act (by faaaaar his best role of what I've seen with him - shouldn't mistake him for Hayden Christensen anymore after this), and this + the camera work and the sound, which send you somewhere close to Hitchcock make the movie watchable. That's about it.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5