THE LIGHTHOUSE is a cinematic feat of myth, metaphor, and exquisite filmmaking that reaches the height of legend. A complex and hallucinatory experience of a character looking forward at his life as well as back at it. Two men who are both lying to themselves as well as each other about who they are, where they come from, why they are there and where they are going. Two men who are one man. One looking back at himself at how he became the man he is, and the other annihilating himself to become the man he is doomed to be. Cursed by his future self, he’s doomed to agony in a cold, damp, windswept rock among the monsters of the sea. Both ultimately surrender to one another in self annihilation. This film is an absolute must for any cinephile. Yet if you don’t appreciate great art, or are impatient, or simply need something quick, dumb and disposable, then sadly, this exquisite film may be not for you.