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Robert Eggers confronts the corrosive effects of power through his depiction of an unspeakable erotic bond.

One famous shot in the first minutes of the film, showing reflections in a smashed snow globe, anticipates the film’s grand themes of ambition and legacy and the cracked mirror of memory. Welles ...