Biography
The owner of the Literary Prize Bram Stocker American Robert Eggers is famous for the director of paintings at the junction of Arthaus and Mainstream. In addition to writing and directorial talent, the man is endowed with the designer's talent.Childhood and youth
The film director was born in the town of the American state of New Hampshire in the summer of 1983. Now the Small Motherland of Eggers has about 4 thousand inhabitants.
Parents of cinematographer Walter and Kelly gave life to two more sons, Max and Sam, the first of which, together with Robert, worked on the "lighthouse" scenario. The director said that he was a strange child and somehow came to school masquerade in the form of Abraham Lincoln, and for the holidays as gifts ordered carnival costumes of unclean strength. The first film, which made an impression on the boy, was "Conan-Barbarian".
Embed from getty imagesChildhood, held in New England, inspires EGGERS to create a film. Before filming the painting "Witch", Robert has repeatedly visited Plymouth Plantation - an open-air museum opened in 1947 and acquainted visitors with the life and traditions of the first settlers in America.
At 18 years old, the guy moved to New York. Before becoming the director and screenwriter, Eggers worked as an artist-designer, decorator in the experimental theater. Youth experience in creating decorations helped him in the filming of the film "Witch".
Personal life
Robert with his family lives in Brooklyn. A film director calls himself a bearded hipster. About the personal life of Eggers is only the fact that a man is married to Alexander Shaker and has one child. Robert does not lead a page in "Instagram", although the photo of the director's fans regularly lay out the photographs from the shooting sites.Films
In the cinema, Eggers made his debut in 2007 with a short film "Genesel and Gretel". On the account of the director, two more short ribbons - "Heart Stories" and "Brothers".
Success Robert brought a full-length debut - the horror movie "Witch". Cash taxes from the tape gave a tenfold agent of funds embedded in its creation, and at the American Festival of Independent Cinema Sandens, Triller won the prize for the director.
In the center of the story "Witches" - Puritan family of the 17th century, expelled from the community for vanity and forced to settle on the edge of the forest. A terrible metamorphosis occurs with the heroes of the tape, whether the witches caused by the miscarios, whether in infection of corn with a hallucinogenic fungus.
The film lasting 93 minutes is removed with the natural light and light of the candles in the Canadian province of Ontario. The horror king Stephen King claims that he was frightened when watching the "Witch", and the Countercultural American group "Church of Satan" blessed the ribbon.
Chamber Black and White Horror Eggers "Lighthouse", whose show in Russia began in January 2020, promises to be no less successful. The plot of the film resembles the Russian thriller Alexei Popogrebsky "As I spent this summer", awarded two "silver bears" at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.
In a distance from the civilized world, two men are carrying their hard watch - young (Robert Pattinson) and not very (Willem Defo). The grandfather replaces the attempt of friendship, but he follows a feud and the desire to destroy each other. According to the Russian criticism of Anton Valley, the "Mayak" is the perfect castle of the male world with all his phobias and bodily secrets.
Robert Eggers now
In the remote plans of Eggers - Mini-series about the biography of Gregory Rasputin, but while the director works on the picture "Northerner", whose script wrote in co-authorship with the Icelandic writer Son Sigurdsson. In a film that tells about Viking, inserting on the revenge path, except the star "Lighthouse" Willem Defo, a lot of celebrities are removed.Embed from getty imagesPleasant news for fans of the Multi-Drama Drama "Big Little Lie" - Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgard, who played in the TV series Chet Wright, will meet on the set of "Northergynina". Eggers and younger brother Alexander Bill Skarsgard, in the filmography of which the most famous role of Village Penniveza in Thillers "It" and "It-2", as well as the Witch Star, Argentino-British actress and model Anyu-Taylor Joy are the most famous.
Filmography
- 2007 - "Henzel and Gretel"
- 2008 - "Heart Stories"
- 2015 - "Brothers"
- 2015 - "Witch"
- 2019 - "Lighthouse"