Posting anything negative about this movie may lead to shattering of the illusion that everything related to this couple is perfect. This may lead to mass hysteria! LOL just kidding. I dont consider the tweets by audience members to be reviews of the movie TBH. Looking forward to reviews when embargo is lifted. I want to read what professional critics think about the production and script writing.
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Posting anything negative about this movie may lead to shattering of the illusion that everything related to this couple is perfect. This may lead to mass hysteria! LOL just kidding. I dont consider the tweets by audience members to be reviews of the movie TBH. Looking forward to reviews when embargo is lifted. I want to read what professional critics think about the production and script writing.
Michael Fassbender Shuts Down Questions About Alicia Vikander Romance
By WENN in Movies / TV / Theatre on 28 August 2016
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Michael Fassbender refused to answer questions regarding his romance with Alicia Vikander in a new interview.
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The couple has been dating for two years, and very rarely talk about their relationship, which reportedly began while filming their new movie, The Light Between Oceans.
And when quizzed about their love life in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Fassbender was quick to shut down the questioning.
"I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't," he retorted.
Vikander, however, sweetly deflected the question with a more diplomatic response than her 39-year-old Irishman beau.
"I think we've made a clear statement that we keep certain things just between us," she said. "It was very easy to unite, but that's quite personal."
The pair stars in the upcoming drama, adapted from the M.L. Stedman novel and directed by Derek Cianfrance, which follows the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
And Michael was keen to dispel reports they had fallen in love while filming the movie back in 2014.
"It wasn't the first time in a movie either of us had played somebody who is falling in love. There is an element of separation there. If I'm playing a murderer, I don't go out and start murdering people," he said sarcastically.
The Light Between Oceans is released in the U.S. on 2 September (16).
Read more at http://www.contactmusic.net/alicia-...-vikander-romance_5366964#21Lw5apFrIkIHgJ5.99
Not an interview but an article about an interview. Of course they have spun it a certain way to fit their narrative but makes me wonder why Michael is only willing to get lovey dovey about his relationship with non-english publications. He seems very private and annoyed when questioned about his relationship in English.
By WENN in Movies / TV / Theatre on 28 August 2016
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Alicia Vikander Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender refused to answer questions regarding his romance with Alicia Vikander in a new interview.
InFrame by Brave Bison
image: http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/ln/20160214/pre_bafta_dinner_london_140216_01/celebrities-attend-a-pre-bafta-dinner_5132827.jpg
The couple has been dating for two years, and very rarely talk about their relationship, which reportedly began while filming their new movie, The Light Between Oceans.
And when quizzed about their love life in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Fassbender was quick to shut down the questioning.
"I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't," he retorted.
Vikander, however, sweetly deflected the question with a more diplomatic response than her 39-year-old Irishman beau.
"I think we've made a clear statement that we keep certain things just between us," she said. "It was very easy to unite, but that's quite personal."
The pair stars in the upcoming drama, adapted from the M.L. Stedman novel and directed by Derek Cianfrance, which follows the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
And Michael was keen to dispel reports they had fallen in love while filming the movie back in 2014.
"It wasn't the first time in a movie either of us had played somebody who is falling in love. There is an element of separation there. If I'm playing a murderer, I don't go out and start murdering people," he said sarcastically.
The Light Between Oceans is released in the U.S. on 2 September (16).
Read more at http://www.contactmusic.net/alicia-...-vikander-romance_5366964#21Lw5apFrIkIHgJ5.99
Not an interview but an article about an interview. Of course they have spun it a certain way to fit their narrative but makes me wonder why Michael is only willing to get lovey dovey about his relationship with non-english publications. He seems very private and annoyed when questioned about his relationship in English.
Great article Allie - thanks for posting.
Seems Michael is convinced he and Alicia had chemistry from the very beginning which has lasted up until the present! I wouldn't presume to argue - who knows better than him! [emoji7]
Aww yes i loved it!
"We had a chemistry from the beginning, obviously, and sort of to the present," says Fassbender, chuckling.
Lol [emoji23] he's so cute.
Also loved how during the New York press he talked about the development/beginning of their chemistry
it's cute to see him in love. I know he just stated 2 things about them etc but they both said more than once they don't want to share, and tbh reading them telling about their projects together and holidays and friends would be weird, now I'm too used of this "evasive European couple" as someone called them [emoji23] But he's been too cute here. Since he was in NY I hope we'll have a video, but I doubt we'll have a video of everything. [emoji24]
Review: 'The Light Between Oceans' is a bit dim
- Derrick Clements Daily Herald
- What happens in secluded lighthouses stays in secluded lighthouses. Or maybe not.
That’s the kind of thinking that gets a couple played by Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander into trouble in “The Light Between Oceans,” adapted for the screen and directed by Derek Cianfrance, based on a novel of the same name by M.L. Stedman.
The story begins just after World War I, when Tom (played by Fassbender) takes a job in, as I mentioned, a secluded lighthouse. Shortly thereafter, he marries Isabel (played by Vikander).
Their romance is sweet, though not very substantive. She proposes marriage to him in their first date, which also includes a conversation that evokes Anakin and Padme on a date in “Star Wars: Episode II” in terms of setting up thematic stuff by way of unrealistic date dialogue.
But it’s still nice to see them happy together, and with actors as beautiful as the two of them, it’s satisfying in a popcorn sort of way to see them in love against gorgeous landscapes, which are all filmed nicely here. Add Alexandre Desplat's best score since “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” and the beauty is hard to miss.
It’s the movie’s script -- and the novel I would assume, though maybe I shouldn’t, though maybe it doesn’t matter -- that drags things down a bit. Its machinations come in a dutifully sequential fashion, the first half of the movie winding up little wind-up toys of suffering that all end up going off, one after another, throughout the rest of the movie.
Choices lead to consequences, which lead to suffering, which leads to unrealistic nobility, which leads to bittersweetness, and on and on.
What I’m getting at is manipulation. The film feels manipulative, and I don’t know exactly why. Because every film is manipulative: We sit in a dark room where a human-made story will be projected onto a flat screen, the experience crafted to take our emotions on a journey. That’s manipulation. But sometimes it feels like manipulation. And it feels like manipulation in “The Light Between Oceans.”
When we interviewed Tess Kelly this week for the “What Say Ye?” podcast, she told us that her friend has a rule of thumb to never watch a sad movie unless it’s based on real life.
With that philosophy in mind, I would strongly recommend Ms. Kelly’s friend avoid this movie at all costs. It’s fictional, and it’s just one really sad, heart-wrenching thing after another.
I’m not sure I agree with that philosophy, though. I’m OK being made sad from a fictional movie. And I think there’s a fundamentally faulty assumption in there that says that fiction cannot point to truth. As in, “I’ll go through this difficulty if the story it's telling is real, but otherwise it’s just torture.”
But great fiction can point to truth, of course, in ways that make enduring the sadness richly fulfilling -- and even joyful.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Remains of the Day” is an example of a novel (and the terrific movie is equally successful) that has, like “The Light Between Oceans,” a series of difficult situations befall the central romantic relationship. And, also like “The Light Between Oceans,” Ishiguro’s story makes use of a political context that comments on prejudice and tensions of war.
But Ishiguro is so much more nuanced and artful at it. His plot machinations feel more organic than they feel like clockwork, and his observations go much deeper than surface-level characteristics, which "The Light Between Oceans" never quite does.
When we interviewed Tess Kelly this week for the “What Say Ye?” podcast, she told us that her friend has a rule of thumb to never watch a sad movie unless it’s based on real life.
With that philosophy in mind, I would strongly recommend Ms. Kelly’s friend avoid this movie at all costs. It’s fictional, and it’s just one really sad, heart-wrenching thing after another.
I’m not sure I agree with that philosophy, though. I’m OK being made sad from a fictional movie. And I think there’s a fundamentally faulty assumption in there that says that fiction cannot point to truth. As in, “I’ll go through this difficulty if the story it's telling is real, but otherwise it’s just torture.”
But great fiction can point to truth, of course, in ways that make enduring the sadness richly fulfilling -- and even joyful.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Remains of the Day” is an example of a novel (and the terrific movie is equally successful) that has, like “The Light Between Oceans,” a series of difficult situations befall the central romantic relationship. And, also like “The Light Between Oceans,” Ishiguro’s story makes use of a political context that comments on prejudice and tensions of war.
But Ishiguro is so much more nuanced and artful at it. His plot machinations feel more organic than they feel like clockwork, and his observations go much deeper than surface-level characteristics, which "The Light Between Oceans" never quite does.
By the way, the real-life version of this story that I would strongly recommend to Tess Kelly's friend -- and is just as gut-wrenching -- is the nonfictional hour of This American Life called, "Switched at Birth." I'll just leave that there.
One more observation about the film. At a certain point in the film, Fassbender and Vikander wear makeup to look older, but the camera focuses much more on Fassbender in that sequence. We don’t get more than a glimpse of old lady Isabel -- it’s distracting.
But I’m ashamed to say that it didn’t occur to me until that moment that the reason for this is because Vikander is a year younger than myself, and Fassbender is more than 10 years older than her.
It’s believable that Fassbender could be an old man, but it’s pretty unbelievable to me that movies still cast romances with such big age gaps and it still doesn’t even faze me as strange when it's the man who's the older one.
One more observation about the film. At a certain point in the film, Fassbender and Vikander wear makeup to look older, but the camera focuses much more on Fassbender in that sequence. We don’t get more than a glimpse of old lady Isabel -- it’s distracting.
But I’m ashamed to say that it didn’t occur to me until that moment that the reason for this is because Vikander is a year younger than myself, and Fassbender is more than 10 years older than her.
It’s believable that Fassbender could be an old man, but it’s pretty unbelievable to me that movies still cast romances with such big age gaps and it still doesn’t even faze me as strange when it's the man who's the older one.
Edit: now I see the source
+ tbh I didn't want to know the ending of the movie, I always tell you when there are spoilers. I am going to see it in 3 days. I read the book but I didn't want to know the ending in the movie (make up to look older) And now I know it. Thanks.
+ tbh I didn't want to know the ending of the movie, I always tell you when there are spoilers. I am going to see it in 3 days. I read the book but I didn't want to know the ending in the movie (make up to look older) And now I know it. Thanks.
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it's pretty unbelievable to me that this person didn't know Tom and Isabel actually have an age gap in the book too and this thing is also remarked a couple of time in the book, so it's part of the story, not a miscast or a kind of trendy new fashion. The characters have an age gap which is pretty clear especially in Isabel's energy and nature full of life and in Tom's post-war depression, which is the particular immense distance that makes him fall in love with her and with life itself again. They had to make us see this gap, it's the essence of their story, the way she revitalises him.
And it's also in the book, so I don't see it as a mistake of the movie at all. It was important to make us perceive their differences in life experiences and vitalism.
+ 11 years it's not such an age gap tbh.....[emoji23]
11 years is nothing between consenting adults in a relationship - Some people seem to have a real hang up about age, I've never understood why! Love transcends age gaps; when two people find love and happiness it's of no matter, as Michael and Alicia have found [emoji173]️
Agree about the age thing.
In relation to TLBO...kind of invalidates the review when they can't grasp the fact that the age difference was a relevant part of the story, as written in the book. But each to their own.
It's a very common thing. Personally I'm attracted to older men too, so.. What can I say? It's human nature.
Btw talking about movie and book this person clearly didn't understand the importance their age gap had in their love story and in the story in general, cause that had an impact on all he things that happened. The way Isabel relies on Tom, the way she finds in him protection and same goes for Tom: Isabel changes his life cause right when he feels hopeless and f***ed and wants to disappear on a desert island thinking his life is meaningless and more or less ended, he meets this Big Bang of life which she is. As Michael said "full of life, full of fertility, hope... Brings him back to life again, gives him love teaching him how to allow himself to love and be loved with her vitality and youthful naivety". So.... [emoji106][emoji57]
Seriously I DONT HAVE problems with good/bad reviews when they have clever motivations, but this.... [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33] is not that serious. I mean, if you didn't accept and understand their age gap... Unfortunately I must tell you that you haven't understood the essence of the story at all.. Cos their age gap is actually one of the most important things which makes us understand their love, the kind of relationship they have, Tom's re-birth and choices, Isabel's approach to grief and naivety... [emoji53]
So yeah I 100% disagree with his statement which makes me think he didn't really get the sense of it (?).