The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Directed by Derek Cianfrance
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
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What critics compared The Light Between Oceans to
The new film wants to be as glorious to look at and listen to as Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” (1978) and as wracked with emotions as James Gray’s “The Immigrant” (2013), and if it doesn’t match the achievements of those two, Cianfrance still proves his point.
“The Light Between Oceans” is an old-fashioned tearjerker – the kind of movie that fans of “The Notebook” might embrace -- that begins in 1919.
Starring Michael Fassbender (Shame, 12 Years a Slave) as World War I veteran Tom Sherbourne and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) as local lovely Isabel Graysmark, The Light Between Oceans promises love, heartbreak, pain and joy - perhaps going head to head with Me Before You to be 2016's tissue-wielding answer to The Notebook.
Incluso en el campo cinematográfico no es precisamente innovador; no faltan los títulos recientes que retoman el mismo tema fascinante, incluido Lighthouse Keeper (2016) de Benjamin Cooper, The Light Between Oceans (2016) de Derek Cianfrance, Cold Skin (2017) de Xavier Gens y Keepers (2018) de Kristoffer Nyholm.
Cinematographer Adam Arkapaw (who also shot the gorgeous The Light Between Oceans, the Michael Fassbender Macbeth, and the first season of True Detective) uses gauzy natural light and inky shadows to convey the complicated, seemingly unnavigable quandaries in which young King Hal (Timothée Chalamet) is trapped.