Catalan film
Adaptation of d’Albert Sánchez Piñol’s eponymous novel.
Directed by Xavier Gens, Spain/France, 2017, 107 min.
In English with French subtitles.
On a remote islet of the South Atlantic, two men barricaded in a lighthouse repel attacks of cold-skinned creatures. The protagonists think they are in the heart of darkness, while the darkness is in their heart. Civilization against barbarism, reason against passion, light against darkness: so many magnetic poles that attract and repel each other in a perfectly cyclical history, because man always obeys the same fears, the same atavistic desires.
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