The Witch Q&A with director Robert Eggers | BFI London Film Festival

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Writer-director Robert Eggers talks about his film, The Witch – a contender in the Festival’s First Feature Competition – alongside producer Jay Van Hoy, and stars Ralph Ineson and Anya Taylor-Joy. Together they discuss making this unsettling, ‘puritan’s nightmare’, set in New England in the 17th century.

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In 17th-century New England, a devout Christian family are banished from their plantation. They relocate to a humble farm situated on the edge of a dense forest to live a life of self-sufficiency. With the elements taking their toll and food growing scarce, the family are thrown into despair when their youngest child inexplicably goes missing. As they hunt desperately for the lost child, tensions and paranoia breeds within the family and the growing belief that a supernatural force is at work slowly leads them to turn on each other. Taking place decades before the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1690s, Robert Eggers’ (Best Director, Sundance Film Festival) gruelling tale of hysteria and sorcery is a profoundly unsettling and visionary work, capturing the unrelenting bleakness of its period setting with uncompromising conviction. Often terrifying, although by no means a traditional horror film, this hellish descent into madness is a cruel, sometimes enigmatic and entirely singular experience.