‘The Light Between Oceans’ Trailer: Michael Fassbender & Alicia Vikander Find A Baby In The Sea
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After delivering the extremely bleak and poignant dramasThe Place Beyond the PinesandBlue Valentine, directorDerek Cianfranceis back to tug at your heartstrings again, this time with an adaptation ofM.L. Stedman’s novelThe Light Between Oceans.
The drama starsMichael Fassbenderas a lighthouse keeper, living with his wife (Alicia Vikander) on a remote island in Australia. One day a tiny boat appears near their shore with a baby girl inside of it, leaving them to raise her as their own daughter. But things get complicated when happenstance brings the child’s true mother (Rachel Weisz) into their life. As you can guess, a moral quandary presents itself, and thus begins the drama.
WatchThe Light Between Oceanstrailer after the jump.
Even though this looks like quite the powerful drama, I can’t help but be reminded of the movieThe Deep End of the Oceanfrom 1999. The film followed a family, led by Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams, who lose their youngest son due to kidnapping. But nine years later, after moving to a new neighborhood, they find their son living with a new family. Basically, it’s almost like the opposing side of the story you see inThe Light Between Oceans, just in another time and place. Both titles have “ocean” in them and are based on books. If these movies were made in the same year, we’d have ourselves a good old Hollywood stand-off.
Still, this film does look like it will pack a punch, especially with cinematography by Adam Arkapaw, fresh off working with Justin Kurzel and Michael Fassbender onMacbeth. There’s a chance we might see this movie hit the festival circuit at Cannes before hitting theaters this fall, but we won’t know for a couple months or so.
From acclaimed director Derek Cianfrance, (Blue Valentine, A Place Beyond the Pines), and based on the extraordinary best-selling novel from M.L Stedman, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, is a beautiful yet heart-breaking story of love and sacrifice.
On a remote Australian island in the years following World War I, lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) and his wife, Isabel (Alicia Vikander), discover a boat washed ashore carrying a dead man and a two-month old baby. Rescuing the infant, they make the decision to raise her as their own but the consequences of their choice prove to be devastating.
