On a tranquil Northern California night, as part of the Mill Valley Film Festival‘s “Spotlight on Robert Pattinson,”  in conjunction with the California Film Institute, “The Lighthouse” debuted. Robert Eggers‘s highly-anticipated follow-up to his universally critically-acclaimed feature film debut, “The Witch,” “The Lighthouse,” is a brilliant deconstruction of egoism and masculinity; this psychological, Vantablack comedy pits Pattinson against a formidable Willem Dafoe, and it is a quiet miracle of a film.

In a wildly successful effort to expand his cinematic palette of genres, Pattinson has made it a point to accept unorthodox roles in increasingly weird, daring, and off-kilter films, describing “The Lighthouse” as “show-stoppingly strange…”

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