It’s a setup worthy of Greek tragedy, but it ends in a high-flown whirlwind of confession and forgiveness.Īt the start, Vikander is intoxicating when Isabel realizes she must take the reins of romance with this psychologically wounded man.
She persuades Thomas to bury the corpse, destroy the boat, and pretend the baby is hers. When a dead man and a still-breathing baby bob up in a dinghy nearby, she thinks Providence has answered her prayers. Alicia Vikander captures youthful rapture in full bloom as Isabel Graysmark, his beautiful local bride, who lives with him in idyllic isolation until she repeatedly miscarries. Michael Fassbender makes sensitivity and dignity sexy as Thomas Sherbourne, who survived the trenches with his sanity tested and humanity intact. And the movie’s luxuriant landscapes and keyed-up performers lull you into early acceptance, before the film reveals its fundamental hollowness. The title The Light Between Oceans derives from Janus Rock’s location, where the Indian Ocean meets the Great Southern Ocean. Stedman’s engrossing 2013 Thomas Hardy–inspired novel about a World War I veteran who becomes a lightkeeper on Janus Rock, 100 miles off the western coast of Australia, has been transformed into little more than a pious tearjerker.
In the hands of writer-director Derek Cianfrance ( Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines), M.L.
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