Top 10 films with lighthouses

(autotranslated, could have mistakes)

Source: http://skysearcher.livejournal.com/29748.html

Lighthouses have a special appeal to me. There is something majestic and peaceful about them. On the one hand, a lighthouse is steadfastness, reliability, a sign of the way, on the other – loneliness, isolation... And in general, they are beautiful! That’s why films that feature a lighthouse in one way or another automatically pique my interest, and after watching a number of them, I decided to put together my top ten films about lighthouses.

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10. Half Light (2006, dir. Craig Rosenberg)

This film would have been an unremarkable thriller about a writer grieving the loss of her son who moves to a remote village where mysterious events happen to her, if not for the gorgeous landscapes of the Welsh coast (although the plot takes place in Scotland). Central to this beauty is the old lighthouse, where several key events in the film take place. The lighthouse is shown often and beautifully, for which this film is awarded an honorable tenth place in the ranking.

9. The Ring (2002, dir. Gore Verbinski)

A solid atmospheric horror film with a twisted plot, which gave rise to a series of less successful remakes of Japanese horror films. The lighthouse plays an important role in the film, because it is the first step towards solving the mystery of the deadly videotape.

8. Mr. Nobody/Mr. Nobody (2009, dir. Jaco Van Dormel)

A rather chaotic, although not without its charms, fantasy film starring Jared Leto. Having mixed an unimaginable number of themes, motifs, genres, quotes from other films, the director-screenwriter created a cocktail from which you can get pleasure, or even indigestion. The film also has a beautiful, rich video sequence, in which there is a city of the future, and natural landscapes, and the Martian desert, and, of course, a lighthouse, albeit briefly and from afar. Near it, the main character is waiting for his beloved.

7. El faro/The Lighthouse (1998, dir. Eduardo Mignon)

Naturally, I couldn’t pass by a film with that title. Contrary to expectations, there was very little lighthouse in the film - only about ten minutes of screen time. But even without him, there is something to see in this Argentine film, which tells the story of the difficult and even tragic fate of two orphaned sisters. For example, the excellent performance of wonderful actors Ingrid Rubio and Ricardo Darin.

6. Possible worlds/Possible worlds (2000, Robert Lepage)

A fantastic and slightly surreal film about a man who has the ability to remember all his lives in various parallel worlds. True, he often gets confused in these worlds, so he is perplexed when his wife, played by Tilda Swinton, suddenly turns from a modest laboratory employee into a predatory broker, or even declares that she doesn’t know him. The lighthouse appears in the strangest scene in the entire film, where masked men are building some kind of structure, using a language consisting of only three words: slab, block and... fun. Despite the apparent absurdity of what is happening, the denouement gives everything a logical, albeit not very original, explanation.

5. Paperhouse (1988, dir. Bernard Rose)

A scary tale about a sick girl who discovers that in her dreams she can find herself in a world she has drawn. In this picture there is a house, and in the house there is a boy with whom you can be friends. But what initially seems like an exciting adventure turns into a nightmare when Anna is faced with the consequences of her artistic decisions, such as not drawing her new friend's legs or crossing out her own father's face. The lighthouse in the film is a refuge where the young heroes try to hide from the monster born of Anna's anger and despair.

4. Un long dimanche de fiançailles/A Long Engagement (2004, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

The second and, it seems to me, more successful case of collaboration between director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and actress Audrey Tautou. The film tells the story of a girl searching for her fiance, who disappeared during the First World War. The themes are serious, the mood of the film is by no means cheerful, but at the same time the director manages to maintain his distinctive style: whimsical, almost cartoonish visuals, peculiar humor and all-conquering optimism. The lighthouse in the film serves as a meeting place for the characters in love.

3. La ley del deseo/The Law of Desire (1987, dir. Pedro Almodóvar)

One of the first big roles of Antonio Banderas. Here he plays a young man who is so deeply in love with a famous film director that this love begins to turn into obsession. The scene with the lighthouse is one of the central ones in the film, because it is in it that the viewer discovers that Banderas’ hero has crossed the line beyond which passion turns into madness.

2. On top down under (2002, dir. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)

The best, in my opinion, short film from the Erotic tales series. She remembers him at the lighthouse among the snowy expanses of Iceland. He misses her on the sun-scorched plains of Australia. Each of them copes with loneliness and sadness in their own way. In both cases there is ice...

1. Unde la soare e frig/Where it's cold in the sun (1991, dir. Bogdan Dumitrescu)

Well, the first place is probably occupied by the least known film of the entire ten. This Romanian film is similar in plot to the Soviet classic television film "Nameless Star" and quite possibly has the same source, because the Soviet film was based on the play by the Romanian writer Mikhail Sebastian. I also love “The Nameless Star” very much, but there is no lighthouse there, but in its Romanian version there is. It is at the lighthouse that a city lady, who has quarreled with either her husband or her lover, accidentally ends up. There she meets an eccentric, unsociable caretaker, and an unexpected, inappropriate and, of course, doomed love gradually arises between these two such dissimilar people.