![]() ![]() In adapting the book, Derek Cianfrance (“Blue Valentine”) spares us no images of the sea or the surf. They raise the little girl as their own, covering up how they got her from everyone.īut the little girl has a mother (Rachel Weisz) who mourns for her and clings to the hope that she still lives. And Tom, slavishly devoted to duty and doing the right thing, relents. So when a boat washes ashore with a dead man and a baby, she sees her lifeline. It broke the spirit of the previous lighthouse keeper. The lonely place, the heartbreak, it could do her in. What he couldn’t see, beyond the romantic idyll of two lovers on a windswept limestone rock, would be the miscarriages and how those would hit Isabel. “I couldn’t stop seeing my life with you.” She, in essence, proposes to him on their second meeting. Isabel (Alicia Vikander) has that effect on him. ![]() But when the job turns permanent, he is drawn back to the bold, flirtatious free spirit he met at the nearest coastal town. He’s to be the temporary new keeper of the light at Janus Island, a hundred miles from anywhere, keeping the light burning and the ships off the shoals around this island home.Ī sensitive man of faith and a philosophical bent, he isn’t looking for companionship. Maybe now he’d like to save lives for a change. ![]() He’s spent four years in the trenches of France. Michael Fassbender is Thomas Sherbourne, a veteran of The Great War, home and in search of work that offers solitude, peace and purpose. It’s a romance novel, a romantic fable, brought to life by a pretty good cast that cannot make it more than is, that cannot give it more meaning and make it less frustrating than novelist M.L. It’s an evocative period piece based on a best-selling novel, an era and an exotic setting beautifully captured and lavishly photographed.īut change the locale from remote, coastal Australia to the beaches of Carolina, and all “The Light Between Oceans” adds up to is a Nicolas Sparks novel with more poetic writing. It has an A-list cast of hot actors, an Oscar winner and a couple of Aussie acting icons. ![]()
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