Rated PG-13
2 hours 10 minutes
Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Bryan Brown
Unless you hate having your emotions manipulated, “The Light Between Oceans” is the perfect picture to your only human.
Your insides will ache as lovers Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander discover the most passionate love, while wrestling with a moral crisis. Ah, these kindred spirits are so much in live.
Theirs is the most idyllic love affair on the rugged Australian coastline enhanced with the most luscious cinematography.
But they’re unable to have children and they’ve found an infant. Someone else’s child that she embraces as her own.
The moral crisis intensifies when they discover Rachel Weisz from the town’s wealthiest family is their child’s real mother.
It’s pure grade-A soap opera with all the trimmings. But done so well, you can’t wipe away the tears fast enough, before the next wave of heartache floods the screen.
Among all the beautiful performances, Alicia Vikander displays the rare power to work on your emotions until it hurts.
“The Light Between the Oceans” can’t help but send you out into the night realizing you didn’t bring along enough tissues.
“The Light Between Oceans” is a beacon, pointing the way to a deeply felt 4 stars.
This is a magnificent tear-jerker, just like the way they used to make them, and in many respects, it’s even better.