Robert Eggers clearly enjoys challenging himself, his cast, and his audience. The writer-director’s feature debut – 2015’s The Witch – was set in 1650s New England, shot using only candles and natural light, and performed via the formal language of the period. His follow-up feature moves forward in time – to the 1890s – and features a pair of bona fide movie stars in the shape of Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. Yet if anything, it’s an even more challenging watch, shot in bleak black and white (using a square 1.19:1 aspect ratio), again utilizing the vernacular of the time, and revolving around a premise that poses more questions and offers fewer answers than its predecessor.
Source: IGN.com The Lighthouse Review