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The Lighthouse

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Brett Alan Dewing
Nov 09, 2019
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The Lighthouse asks a lot of you as a viewer.  It is a semi-allegorical film shot in beautiful black and white in a square frame.  Thus, from the beginning, we are tipped off to the oddness and difficulty of the movie.

It is on one level the tale of an experienced lighthouse keeper and the young man who has come to assist him with his duties.  The men sp…

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