The Light Between Oceans is a British-American drama by Derek Cianfranco, based on ML Stedman's novel of the same name, and tells the story of a couple living on a lonely and remote Australian island who cannot have children, and one day a baby washes up on the shore. Are you going to report him or adopt him? The film stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz.
Drama The Light Between Oceans puts us in the 1920s on an Australian island where Tom Sherbourne lives (Michael Fassbender: Steve Jobs, Macbeth) and his wife Isabel (Alicia Vikander; Ex Machina, The Danish Girl).
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Tom after exhausting years on the western front returns to Australia and takes over the office lighthouse keeper on the island of Janus Rock, which is more than half a day's sail away from the mainland, and where a supply boat comes only once a year. He also takes his loving wife to the island. Two years later, after two miscarriages and a stillbirth, a grieving Isabel he hears the cry of a child in the wind. The husband wants to report the finding of the baby, while Isabel insists that it is a baby a gift from God. Tom relents and they name the baby Lucy. But this is where the story begins.
Drama
The Light Between Oceans
(USA, 2016)
Direction: Derek Cianfrance. They play: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Caren Pistorius, Florence Clery, Anthony Hayes, Emily Barclay, Leon Ford.
In the cinema from September 2, 2016.
