Filling his needs perfectly is a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Island, so named for the god who in times of Ancient Rome oversaw beginnings, endings, gates, transitions, time, doorways and passages, and was depicted with two faces as he looks to the past and to the future. Closed off and introverted, he seeks much needed solitude and quiet as he tries to come to grips with the horrors he witnessed and what he did during the war his survivor’s guilt. Tom Sherbourne is a young Australian ex-serviceman now suffering with the psychological scars of his four-year stint on the Western Front during the war. The richness of the story swells and surges to life thanks not only to exquisitely strong and impressive visuals, but complex enigmatic characters played with strength and heart courtesy of Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. Stedman’s 2010 bestseller, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS.

There are tears, lots and lots of tears, and the tidal swirling of emotions both on screen and in the audience as Cianfrance pulls on every heartstring known to mankind and then some, with this adaptation of Australian author M.L. There is more than light between oceans in this latest film from writer/director Derek Cianfrance.

Author of the light between oceans