Robert Eggers’s 'Nosferatu' Is a Modern Gothic Triumph

Somewhere in the overcast German town of Wisborg, our weeping protagonist, Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp), emerges from the shadowy corners of her bedroom. Enveloped in an aching loneliness as dense as the sheet of darkness that blankets her, she cries out to some astral plane for companionship. “Spirit of any celestial sphere,” she sobs, hands clasped prayerfully, “come to me!” The response, far from empyreal, pierces her mind and commands her flesh with a rasping whisper.