Rachel Weisz (“Youth”) also delivers a genuine and heartfelt performance of a mother grieving for her lost daughter. Their chemistry is palpable due to their bottomless talent and is perhaps enhanced by the fact that they’re dating in real life (God bless this world). The pair act across a vast emotional spectrum, moving through new love to shattering loss to choking guilt. Both deliver powerful performances through subtlety of emotion, moving mountains with a single change in expression. Playing the leading couple, Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”) and Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”) prove once again that they are masters of their class. The acting is also spectacular, as one would expect with a trio of Academy Award winners and nominees. The entire artistic effect is one of intense beauty and intense solitude. Composed by Alexandre Desplat, it’s no surprise that the score is incredible - Desplat is a master composer, with a repertoire that includes “The Imitation Game,” “The King’s Speech” and “The Danish Girl,” among others. The light is both soft and pervasive, enhancing the physical and emotional aspects of the characters in subtle but powerful ways.Īlso an active agent in the film’s success, the score is a moving collection of sweeping piano pieces that intensify the emotions of the characters. Director Derek Cianfrance (“The Place Beyond the Pines”) masterfully manipulates natural light to add a delicate, dreamy effect to every scene. As a movie about a lighthouse keeper, light itself is a major element of the film’s cinematography. The result is a collection of shots that create a gorgeous, pastoral landscape of the lighthouse island, one that is both serene and lonely. Comprised heavily of still landscape shots taken off the coast of Western Australia, each scene looks like an oil painting, with soft colors that melt together in smooth compositions. The film is a breathtaking piece of artwork. After five years of familial bliss, the couple is forced by guilt and circumstance to come to terms with reality and face the true, grieving mother of their child. “The Light Between Oceans” is the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife, who rescue and keep a baby that washes up on their island shore, purposefully choosing not to look into the baby’s original home.
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