The Lighthouse to have its first Yarmouth showing Oct. 24
Tickets have been available through Cineplex; Film has received high praise in many reviews
The wait is drawing to a close for people to get to see The Lighthouse film in Yarmouth.
Tickets for the much-anticipated movie filmed on the craggy tip of Cape Forchu last year became available last week through Yarmouth Cineplex for two screenings on Oct. 24.
The Lighthouse, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, has received a legion of rave reviews from film critics.
Municipality of Yarmouth Coun. Patti Durkee has been a strong advocate of the project from the start. On Oct. 3 she received news she was hoping for from Chris Cameron, the general manager of Cineplex Cinemas Yarmouth.
“I have great news,” Cameron said. “We’re playing an advance screening of the Lighthouse on Thursday, Oct 24. This will likely be followed by a full week run after but I won’t know that for sure until Monday (Oct. 21).”
That was after the Tri-County Vanguard's press deadline. Visit the Yarmouth Cineplex website for updates on show times.
Durkee says she was told that essentially the film — released on Oct. 18 after doing the film festival circuit — is being shown in large urban centres right now and the only small place where it coming to for the time being is Yarmouth.
Another source in the movie industry says a weeklong showing of the film will happen in Yarmouth, and that if demand for tickets is high, the movie could run over several weeks in Yarmouth.
That happened when the movie Maudie — about folk artist Maud Lewis — was shown in Yarmouth. The movie had multiple sold-out shows daily and ran for several weeks.
The Lighthouse is described has been described as the hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. It is said to fall into the drama, fantasy and horror genres.
The following are excerpts from some of the reviews about the movie:
■ The astonishing Dafoe crushes the role of Thomas Wake, a pipe-chewing old salt who makes life hell for Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson), the apprentice who learns that a few weeks alone with Thomas is a recipe for madness. ~ Rolling Stone
■ Every scene includes another shocking discovery, another potentially crippling accident, another suspicious and possibly magical occurrence, so the viewer seems to be getting more and more pieces of an increasingly surreal puzzle, even if that puzzle is never quite complete. ~BBC
■ Right from the start, Eggers pulls us into an outpost of otherworldly solitude as the suffused beam of the lighthouse pierces the soupy white fog. Mark Korven's nerve-jangling atonal score of brass, woodwinds and percussion mixes with the intricately layered soundscape of crashing waves and stinging wind, and foghorn blasts that might be mistaken for the cries of whales or the roars of sea monsters. ~ Hollywood Reporter