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The Light Between Oceans
A film of Derek Cianfrance is starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander as well as Rachel Weisz follows an Austrailan family. A man and his wife leave the coast of Western Australia to nurture a baby they save from an adrift rowboat.
24 October 1984, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
23 June 1947, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
30 October 1948, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1959, Australia
31 August 1940, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
5 June 1946, Wales, UK
30 April 1947, New Zealand
3 October 1988, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
28 March 1958, St Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
February 17, 2017
It's a shame that within such beauty lies a pretty gloomy story, one that foolishly trusts the audience will get behind the whole stealing-a-baby concept. I didn't, and I got very bored.
January 25, 2017
A film that resources to drama, beautiful scenes and its cast more than necessary, pushing its protagonist to the limit. [Full review in Spanish]
March 23, 2017
There were tears on my cheeks, but I wasn't feeling a thing.
September 02, 2016
The movie ends up seeming like an inchoate hybrid of melodrama and psychodrama-between the oceans, indeed.
April 01, 2017
What I find so jarring about The Light Between Oceans isn't just its unabashed sentimentality, but its utter reducibility.
September 02, 2016
The movie errs most with its main plot, which requires the characters to behave with utmost stupidity, sacrificing its hard-earned storytelling for a frustrating payoff.
September 05, 2016
Stand back from this fable and examine it for logic, and you see how nonsensical it is.
March 21, 2017
From lesser actors, the story would have definitely become the worst Nicholas Sparks film adaptation ever. But they make you feel for them, even when they're making poor life decisions that you know will end miserably.
September 02, 2016
Contrivances and melodrama aside, it is emotionally true and that's often the most important thing for a film of this nature.
September 02, 2016
The Light Between Oceans is stunning to see, and the performances are of the highest caliber, but it's all packaged in a story that just doesn't earn its stay, or our tears.
September 22, 2016
I suspect a doomed romance of another sort has unfurled: Acclaimed indie director falls for slush bucket best-seller and thinks he can "redeem" it with great cinematography and Oscar-winning actors.
