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Front Row: Robert Pattinson on The Lighthouse, Risk in Films, Greta Gerwig on Little Women

Robert Pattinson on The Lighthouse, Risk in Films, Greta Gerwig on Little Women

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Robert Pattinson on The Lighthouse, Risk in Films, Greta Gerwig on Little Women

Robert Pattinson on his new film The Lighthouse, and Greta Gerwig on Little Women.

Robert Pattinson on his new Oscar nominated film The Lighthouse, a black and white thriller about two lighthouse keepers. Plus Greta Gerwig on Little Women.

Robert Pattinson talks to Samira about his new Oscar nominated film The Lighthouse, a gothic thriller in black and white from Robert Eggers (The Witch), in which Robert and Willem Dafoe play two lighthouse keepers who start to lose their sanity when a storm strands them on a remote island. 

Continuing Front Row's Risk season, two film-makers who have exposed themselves to personal danger. Oscar winning director Orlando von Einsiedel (The White Helmets, Virunga) discusses filming in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in DR Congo as civil war broke out. Hassan Akkad discusses filming his journey from Damascus to the UK via the Calais ‘Jungle’, including a dangerous boat crossing from Turkey to Greece as the boat began to sink, footage which featured in the BBC series Exodus.

In the run up to this year's BAFTAs and Academy Awards, the all-male Best Director shortlists have attracted criticism, with many lamenting the omission of Greta Gerwig, whose Little Women has been a critical and commercial success and picked up other nominations including Best Film, Actress and Screenplay. Greta gives her take on all this and discusses her reworking of Louisa May Alcott's novel. 

Main image: Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse
Image credit: © Universal Pictures International

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser

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