気象観測員となった青年・フレンドは、南極海の果てにある無人島で変わり者の灯台守・グルナーと暮らし始める。だが、夜が更けるとその島に生き物の大群が押し寄せてくる。2人は灯台を要塞として、毎夜クリーチャーと命懸けの戦いを繰り広げることに。
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監督: ザヴィエ・ジャン
脚本: Albert Sánchez Piñol / Jesús Olmo / Eron Sheean
音楽: Víctor Reyes
制作: Mark Albela / Denise O'Dell
撮影監督: Daniel Aranyó
制作会社: KanZaman Productions / Babieka Films / The Ink Connection / Pontas Film & Literary Agency / Gran Babieka
David Oakes is one of those actors regularly seen in lengthy historical television adaptations, but rarely making any decent appearances on the bg screen. In this clever and stylish adaptation of Piñol's novel, he plays a young man (with no name, known only as "Friend") deposited on a remote island as a weather monitor. He is teamed up with the rather eccentric "Gruner" (Ray Stevenson) and soon their rather testy relationship is being regularly challenged by their need to defend their lighthouse home each night from an army of curiously aggressive marine mammals. The mystery deepens when we discover that "Gruner" has one of them as a part time lover that he treats pretty appallingly. As the daily carnage continues unabated, "Friend" tries to find out why these attacks happen and to try and find some sort of solution. It's quite an odd concept; the story lacks structure in any conventional sense. It isn't just that they don't know why the creatures are attacking, we don't either. Their bewilderment is our's too; and coupled with the remoteness and starkness of the surroundings it actually all builds eerily and quite compellingly to a rather decent conclusion. Jesús Olmo has adapted the novel sparingly and Xavier Gens allows much of the, at times brutal and violent, imagery do the work. Certainly worth watching.
