This is effectively a two hander about two misfits talking and drinking in a gloomy isolated lighthouse.
It is inspired by a true incident but takes a left turn. Set in 1801, in a lighthouse 25 miles off the Welsh coast and in the Irish sea, Thomas Howell (Michael Jibson) joins the incumbent keeper Thomas Griffith (Mark Lewis Jones.)
Both are guilty about past losses. Griffith has lost family, Howell has lost men. They might each be blameable for it.
Howell is a religious god fearing man. Griffiths is an atheist. Stormy weather has cut off the men, as they drink the relationship between them becomes tense, both men brood.
The Lighthouse is a downbeat psychological thriller. The place they are hemmed in is metaphysical. It is purgatory for their sins. There will be no escape from The Lighthouse.
The film never really maintained my interest. It is acted well by the two leads but it just felt like a stage play. The twist at the end gives it more credibility than it deserves.
It is inspired by a true incident but takes a left turn. Set in 1801, in a lighthouse 25 miles off the Welsh coast and in the Irish sea, Thomas Howell (Michael Jibson) joins the incumbent keeper Thomas Griffith (Mark Lewis Jones.)
Both are guilty about past losses. Griffith has lost family, Howell has lost men. They might each be blameable for it.
Howell is a religious god fearing man. Griffiths is an atheist. Stormy weather has cut off the men, as they drink the relationship between them becomes tense, both men brood.
The Lighthouse is a downbeat psychological thriller. The place they are hemmed in is metaphysical. It is purgatory for their sins. There will be no escape from The Lighthouse.
The film never really maintained my interest. It is acted well by the two leads but it just felt like a stage play. The twist at the end gives it more credibility than it deserves.