The Light Between Oceans
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Light Between Oceans |
| Original title | The Light Between Oceans |
| Country of production |
United Kingdom , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 133 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Derek Cianfrance |
| script | Derek Cianfrance |
| production |
Jeffrey Clifford , David Heyman |
| music | Alexandre Desplat |
| camera | Adam Arkapaw |
| cut |
Jim Helton , Ron Patane |
| occupation | |
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The Light Between Oceans (cross-reference: Love Between Oceans ) is a drama directed by Derek Cianfrance , who also wrote the screenplay for the film. The film is based on the 2012 novel by ML Stedman of the same name and premiered on September 1, 2016 as part of the Venice International Film Festival . The film was released in German cinemas on September 8, 2016.
action
Tom Sherbourne, who was a soldier for almost four years in the First World War , becomes a lighthouse keeper on the remote Australian island of Janus Rock after the end of the war . The physically intact but psychologically traumatized Tom meets Isabel, the daughter of the headmaster of the place on the mainland responsible for the lighthouse. He falls in love with her, and together they move to the island after the wedding. Her happiness is marred only by the fact that Isabel becomes pregnant but miscarries on a stormy night. A second child is also born dead. A short time later, a rowing boat with a dead man and a baby washes ashore. Isabel is overjoyed to be able to take care of the foundling . Tom wants to report the find according to the regulations, but his wife persuades him to pass the child off as her own and let it grow up with her. They call it Lucy. They bury the man's body on the island.
When they want to baptize the child on the mainland, Tom notices a grieving woman in the cemetery. The gravestone inscription suggests that it must be Lucy's birth mother. Tormented by feelings of guilt, he writes her an anonymous letter: Your child is alive, her husband is "with God". The woman named Hannah Roennfeldt takes the letter to the police and demands that her child be found. The officials cannot achieve anything at first. Three years later, Isabel meets Lucy's mother at a party on land. She continues to insist on being silent towards her husband, but he can no longer live with his guilty conscience. When he secretly sends a silver baby rattle from the boat to Hannah and she takes her to the police, the rattle is recognized. The police arrest Tom, who takes all the blame.
On the island, the man's body is exhumed from the rowboat . It is Lucy's biological father, the German Frank Roennfeldt. Because of his origins, he was “harassed” by locals, whereupon he fled to the sea with the baby. Tom is now even under suspicion of murder. The officers take the child away from Isabel and give it to the birth mother. Isabel's love for Tom turns into hate. She puts a letter he wrote to her from prison in a drawer without reading it. Lucy, who is now called by her real name Grace, does not want to stay with the completely unknown woman. She runs away and is only found again after a nightly search at the sea.
Hannah visits Tom in prison and has him confirm that he is the only one responsible for the child abduction. Hannah recognizes Lucy's strong bond with Isabel and offers to give her the child back if she charges Tom with her testimony in court, who would then be convicted of the murder of Frank Roennfeldt. Isabel struggles and then remembers Tom's letter in the drawer. After reading it, she realizes how wrong she has treated Tom. She runs to the jail to apologize, but the police are about to take Tom by ship to his trial. Isabel runs to the harbor and can just reach the ship as it casts off. She tells the police that she saw Lucy's birth father lying dead in the rowboat and that she got Tom to keep the child. This frees Tom from the murder charge, but both are punished for taking the child illegally. Hannah asks the police superintendent if she can mitigate the punishment for the two of them, which he affirms. Lucy / Grace is getting used to their new surroundings. During a ride with her grandfather on his horse, he suggests that her name should be Lucy-Grace.
Many years later, Isabel dies and Tom is left alone. One day he gets a visitor; a young woman introduces herself as Lucy-Grace Rutherford. She brought her baby Christopher with her. Tom is happy about her wish to visit him more often.
production
Literary template and staff
The film is based on the novel of the same name by ML Stedman from 2012, which was published in Germany under the title The Light Between the Seas . Stedman was born in Western Australia , where she grew up and was therefore able to describe the Australian coast well. The American Derek Cianfrance took over the direction and also wrote the script adaptation of the novel. The title refers to the assumed location of the fictional lighthouse island Janus Rock between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean .
occupation
Michael Fassbender took on the role of lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne in the film. Alicia Vikander plays his future wife Isabel Graysmark. Florence Clery took on the role of the girl they found, Rachel Weisz plays her birth mother Hannah Roennfeldt, and Leon Ford can be seen in the film as the late father Frank Roennfeldt.
Filming
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Filming began in the Australian spring in September 2014. They took place in the Tasmanian community of Stanley in Australia and in the New Zealand cities of Dunedin , Port Chalmers and the Marlborough District . The lighthouse seen in the film was taken on Cape Campbell , located in the Marlborough District near Seddon .
During the filming, Vikander and Fassbender became a couple in real life as well.
Film music
The score is from the Oscar- winning French film composer Alexandre Desplat . The soundtrack to the film has a length of 62:21 minutes, comprises 19 songs and was released by Lakeshore Records on September 2, 2016. Furthermore, in the film the song Are you with me from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach , the famous Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda , the Anglican hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful , the Irish Folk Song Mason's Apron and the piece Funeral Canticle of George Mosley to hear . Critics like Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter considered Desplat's work on the score to be Oscar-worthy, even if only a few passages were known before the premiere. In December 2016, the soundtrack was included in the list of candidates (longlist) at the Academy Awards 2017 in the category Best Film Music , from which the members of the academy determined the official nominations.
publication
The film premiered on September 1, 2016 as part of the Venice International Film Festival . The film was released in German cinemas on September 8, 2016.
synchronization
The film was dubbed at RC Production ; Axel Malzacher was responsible for the script and direction .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Sherbourne | Michael Fassbender | Norman Matt |
| Isabel Graysmark | Alicia Vikander | Yvonne Greitzke |
| Hannah Roennfeldt | Rachel Weisz | Bettina White |
| Lucy-Grace (young) | Florence Clery | Marie Düe |
| Lucy-Grace (adult) | Caren Pistorius | Janin Stenzel |
| Ralph Addicott | Jack Thompson | Bert Franzke |
| Bluey Smart | Thomas Unger | Tim Knauer |
| Violet Graysmark | Jane Menelaus | Katharina Koschny |
| Bill Graysmark | Garry McDonald | Bodo Wolf |
| Sergeant Vernon Knuckey | Anthony Hayes | Martin Kautz |
| Gwen Potts | Emily Barclay | Anne Helm |
| Septimus Potts | Bryan Brown | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Sergeant Spragg | Peter McCauley | Uwe Jellinek |
| Frank Roennfeldt | Leon Ford | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss |
reception
Age rating
In the United States, the MPAA rated the film PG-13 for its subject matter and some sexual content. In Germany, where the film is rated FSK 12, the release certificate says: “Atmospherically dense and emotionally intense, the film tells of guilt and forgiveness and makes the internal conflicts of its characters easy to understand. Although individual dramatic moments can overtax children under the age of 12 due to their intensity, 12-year-olds are already able to process them because these scenes are well embedded in the context and the film offers enough opportunity for reflection. "
Reviews
The film was able to convince 61 percent of the critics at Rotten Tomatoes (out of 223 critics in total, as of August 19, 2019).
David Kleingers from Spiegel Online says that although the film is in a genre that has produced a number of manipulative, involuntarily funny or simply greasy films in the past , Derek Cianfrance has succeeded in creating an accomplished melodrama without any embarrassment, without touching the heart to offend the mind. The film, according to Kleingers, is convincing as a canvas-filling epic of love and suffering with emotional truthfulness and without false sentimentality.
Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter considers Adam Arkapaw's camera work to be Oscar-worthy , as does Erin Benach's costume design . Feinberg also sees potential candidates for Best Actor in Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander .
Gross profit
The film has worldwide revenues of $ 26 million with a production cost of around $ 20 million.
Awards
Evening Standard British Film Awards 2017
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress - Shortlist ( Rachel Weisz )
Film by the Sea 2016
- Nomination for the Film and Literature Award (Derek Cianfrance)
Venice International Film Festival 2016
- Nomination for the Golden Lion (Derek Cianfrance)
International Film Music Critics Association Awards 2016
- Nomination for best music for a film drama ( Alexandre Desplat )
Irish Film and TV Awards 2017
- Nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role - Film ( Michael Fassbender )
Web links
- The Light Between Oceans in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Light Between Oceans in the German dubbing index
- Official website for the film (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Light Between Oceans . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 161474 / K).
- ↑ Linda Morris: Interview: ML Stedman In: The Sydney Morning Herald, March 4, 2012.
- ↑ Jake Coyle: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander weren't keen on living in New Zealand for The Light Between Oceans In: stuff.co.nz, August 31, 2016.
- ↑ John Hopewell: Alicia Vikander 'Scared' Michael Fassbender in 'Light Between Oceans': She Was 'Fierce and Hungry' In: Variety, September 1, 2016.
- ↑ Jonathan Broxton: The Light Between Oceans - Alexandre Desplat In: moviemusicuk.us, August 30, 2016.
- ↑ 'The Light Between Oceans' Soundtrack Details In: filmmusicreporter.com, August 3, 2016.
- ^ The Light Between Oceans In: what-song.com. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
- ↑ a b Scott Feinberg: Feinberg Forecast: The First Look at the 89th Oscar Race In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 9, 2016.
- ^ And the predicted nominees are In: awardscircuit.com. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
- ↑ 145 Original Scores In 2016 Oscar Race In: oscars.org, December 13, 2016.
- ↑ Mark Wohlwender: Venice film festival 2016: The Light Between Oceans premiere In: The Guardian, September 1, 2016.
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | The Light Between Oceans. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
- ↑ The Light Between Oceans In: parentpreviews.com. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
- ^ The Light Between Oceans . Reason for release In: Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ↑ The Light Between Oceans In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
- ↑ Melodrama 'The Light Between Oceans' Die Klippen des Kitsches circumnavigated In: Spiegel Online, September 8, 2016.
- ↑ The Light Between Oceans In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
- ^ William Moore: Evening Standard British Film Awards - The shortlist In: standard.co.uk, November 24, 2016.
- ↑ IFMCA Award Nominations 2016 In: filmmusiccritics.org, February 9, 2017.
- ↑ IFTA Nominations Announced for the IFTA Film & Drama Awards 2017 In: hotpress.com, March 8, 2017.