La Luce Sugli Oceani

Poche volte ho avuto la gioia di vedere un film così ricco di emozioni perché sarà anche per il fatto che i registi di oggi sfornano per la maggior parte spazzatura ma nel mucchio si fa notare una perla rara, basta quella lacrima che riesce a strappare, quel cuore infranto, quella struggente storia d'amore che ha riscritto i canoni del vero amore! Insomma, la critica lo ha elogiato come un capolavoro, è stato premiato con 3 Oscar, il pubblico lo ha osannato, io personalmente lo ho amato fin da subito! Ecco, se siete alla ricerca di emozioni, questo sicuramente vi farà battere forte forte il cuore, la lacrima scenderà da sola come per incanto, una storia ben raccontata e ben diretta, un film che io preferisco al pari di La La Land (che amo tantissimo e che ho). Se volete una cineteca di qualità a casa vostra non fatevi sfuggire questo trionfo per l'anima, lo spirito ed il vostro cuore! Consigliatissimo! Nota finale: questo film non è in riassortimento, ciò significa che prima o poi terminerà e ci sarà il rischio di non poterlo più avere, quindi approfittatene!

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dilemmi su cui riflettere

Nicola

Recensito in Italia il 26 dicembre 2022

storia d'amore enorme. dilemmi che pesano ma la follia d'amore platonica emerge e trova pace.

Godibile, ma schema già visto

Valerio

Recensito in Italia il 5 settembre 2023

Attori eccellenti e fotografia notevole. La storia è ricca di esperienze cardine della vita (amore, maternità, paternità, morte, inganno, senso di colpa, sofferenza, giustizia, ingiustizia, solitidine, scandalo, privazione della libertà), perciò il film mi ha coinvolto. Peccato per la sceneggiatura, che ricorda a tratti una telenovela.

Recensito in Italia il 5 dicembre 2017

L'amore di coppia fra Tom e Isabel, il desiderio di lei di diventare madre anche se per ben due volte i loro tentativi rimangono senza successo: questi sono i due temi che impregnano il film. E quando il destino porterà una neonata in una barca alla deriva, la loro decisione di tenerla ed allevarla come figlia loro, porterà a delle conseguenze disastrose per la loro vita e per quella della piccola.
Film struggente e drammatico interpretato da una intensissima Alicia Vikander e da un bravissimo Michael Fassbender. Molto buona anche l'interpretazione di Rachel Weisz.
Talvolta un po' lento, ma trattare situazioni di questo tipo, richiede molte riprese sui volti e sulle espressioni dei personaggi, per comprenderne le emozioni. Molto buono il finale, che non cade nella trappola del buonismo e del melenso.
Qualità del BD ottima.

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Si fa di tutto per essere madri

Cliente Amazon

Recensito in Italia il 13 novembre 2022

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Bellissimo film fa riflettere consiglio a tutti
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lorenz

Recensito in Italia il 3 luglio 2022

film positivo che fa trasparire il bisogno di una paternità e maternità, fatta in una scelta sbagliata. gran film

Recensito in Italia il 13 febbraio 2018

Un film meraviglioso, dalle fortissime emozioni. Alicia Vikander e Michael Fassbender straordinari, uniti da un grande amore (anche nella vita: si sono innamorati sul set e si sono sposati lo scorso ottobre). Rachel Weisz bravissima e perfettamente calata nella parte. Assolutamente da vedere ma, come ho già detto, solo per chi sopporta emozioni molto forti.

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Simona

Commovente

Recensito in Italia il 4 settembre 2017

Il film racconta la storia di una coppia che vive in un faro su un'isola. Dopo vari tentativi per avere un figlio, il mare gli porta una bambina. Una commovente interpretazione con un finale dolce e toccante. Lo consiglio.

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J. L. Sievert

Crisis, loss and grief

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 1 settembre 2018

The film starts out well, beautiful and believable in the early going, but eventually runs into a far-fetched plot device that strains credibility. An incident occurs (or a cascading series of them) that creates tension for the main players, leading to crisis, loss and grief.

Tom Sherbourne has returned to western Australia from the trenches of the First World War. He looks sad, weary, dazed. He doesn’t smile, as there’s a lot bottled up inside he wants to be rid of. He has taken a job few others want, tending a lighthouse on a small remote island located between two oceans, the Indian and the Pacific. What company for him there? The wind and sky, storms and clouds. The sun, sea, moon, stars. Perhaps some sea birds. Memories as well, though he hopes these can be scattered by the wind. The world can cease to exist for a while (he has signed on for six months), the only humans of consequence those at sea whom his guiding light will protect. Strange that thought, protecting humans instead of killing them, as he did during the war. The war! How had he allowed himself to be dragged into it, nearly destroyed by it? He didn’t belong there. No one did. The generals should have met in no-man’s-land with knives and sabres. Instead, the war demanded and received rivers of blood from millions of young men.

He’s not all there yet in the head. It will take time to recover, if he can. For now his job is the only thing that matters, the medicine he needs. Silence and solitude will also help. The world has become too much for him.

Early on Tom (played beautifully, stoically by Michael Fassbender) meets Captain Hasluck in the port town of Partageuse (fictitious). The captain will arrange Tom’s transport by boat to Janus Island, the place where the lighthouse is located. Tom also meets friends of the captain, Mr. and Mrs. Graysmark and their grown daughter, Isabel, aged about 23 (played with girlish charm by Alicia Vikander). They all dine together in the Graysmark home.

Tom is replacing a Mr. Trimble who lived on the island and manned the lighthouse for six years. Trimble was there with his wife, but after a spell things began to fall apart for him. His marriage dissolved and he had a breakdown. “Cabin fever” they called it — isolation, loneliness. Impossible it seems that a single man could endure it. Which is why the posting for Tom is temporary, just six months (as mentioned). But he arrives with good references that say he’s reliable. He was a highly disciplined soldier who followed orders, tough and resilient, too, surviving more than three years of carnage on the Western Front. The captain feels the lighthouse committee have made a good choice.

At the dinner table Tom and Isabel barely exchange words, their glances making up for the silence. It’s obvious she’s taken with him, clear too he’s humbled and flattered by her interest. Yet he’s got a job to do, so whatever she thinks is incidental to it. Later on, alone on the island, he thinks of her often, yet there’s so little to think about. He knows virtually nothing of her, just her voice, appearance, the way she looked at him.

Three months pass. Tom is busy on the island with chores, including the main task of lighting the gas light in the lighthouse at dusk every evening and keeping a detailed log of weather conditions and passing ships.

A crew of three men from the mainland visit Tom at the three-month mark. They bring a message: he is requested by Captain Hasluck to return for a meeting. This he does.

The captain informs Tom that Trimble will not be returning, his convalescence not having gone as well as hoped. In fact it’s gone so badly he’s dead, having jumped from a cliff face in despair. Tom is offered a new contract, this one for three years. He accepts it.

During this time back he visits the home of the Graysmarks, bringing flowers. His intention is clear and Isabel is prepared for it. She arranges a picnic for them (just the two of them). Her parents, especially her mother, voices approval, as if everyone has discussed what Tom’s visit would mean if it occurred.

Things go well. Though Tom is hardly talkative, Isabel’s cheerful, playful personality makes up for it. She’s good at teasing things out of him. She’s clever and sensitive and Tom soon understands this. Their conversation during their picnic is particularly revealing and sets the tone for the rest of the story.

Isabel: What’s it like out there?

Tom: It’s quiet. There’s time to think.

I: You get lonely?

T: Too busy. There’s always something that needs fixing.

I: You like it?

T: (no answer)

I: You don’t actually talk a lot, do you?

T: Do you ask out all the light keepers who go to Janus?

I: All? (she laughs) You’re the first new one in years.

Isabel had two brothers but they’re gone now, both killed in the war. She talks to Tom about this loss — one for herself but especially for her parents.

I: It must be so confusing for my parents. I mean, if a wife loses a husband, she becomes a widow, but if a parent loses a child there’s no special label for it. You’re still a mother or father even if you no longer have a child. Sometimes I wonder if I’m still technically a sister.

And what of Tom’s family? No family to speak of, his mother dead and gone, his father remote, unfeeling. No siblings mentioned. Was his father harsh and strict? An understatement. However, it made Tom tough and disciplined. Long before he was a soldier he had acquired a soldier’s mentality.

T: There’s no love lost between us.

He means himself and his father.

Isabel says she wants to visit Tom. He says in return that it’s impossible. The only women allowed on the island are the wives of light keepers.

I: Then marry me.

Pause.

Then she laughs. He does too. But after the laughter comes silence and they nearly kiss.

They will write. The mail boat comes every couple weeks. They will get to know each other through the marvellous process of writing.

At first their letters are a bit formal. But this soon melts. Afterwards, nothing but affection, longing, desire. That’s how their love develops. An old-fashioned one, almost Victorian in pace and sentiment.

So, they make love with words long before they ever do with touch. In one letter Isabel makes a teasing jest of her love, announcing to Tom that her “offer” still stands — the one of marriage to him. Though he doubts such happiness could truly be his, he’s overjoyed. Of course he is. She is lively, beautiful, playful, passionate. But she’s also serious, philosophical, a woman of great depth. He doesn’t understand why she has come into his life, but sometimes one just has to surrender to fate and its mysteries. He does and they marry.

The celebration outdoors on the mainland after the ceremony is lovely, everyone in good cheer. Mr. Graysmark toasts the young couple and beseeches Tom to take care of Isabel, as she is the last child he and his wife have. Everyone knows he will. He especially knows it, this love having come out of nowhere, a gift of life after all he has seen and endured. These scenes of happiness are tender and touching. The couple dance in the centre of the group. They embrace and kiss, and when they do Isabel giggles like a schoolgirl. No wonder Tom loves her. There is nothing affected about her. In this pure moment she truly seems a schoolgirl again.

And, perhaps interesting to say, life really does imitate art sometimes. Rumour says Tom and Isabel were not the only ones to come together on Janus Island. Michael and Alicia fell in love there too while making the film. Perhaps the wild setting, the ocean, wind and waves had something to do with it, the human heart stirred by these powerful forces.

The first half of the film, utterly beautiful, is as described above. But through no fault of their own forces conspire against the couple to test their happiness. This is where the story takes a strong detour. Their fairy tale romance in isolation on the island cannot last, and, almost like shipwrecks, they are blown back to the mainland by circumstances beyond their control.

To be honest, this turn in the story disappointed me. Maybe I’m too much of a romantic and idealist, a victim of too many Jane Austen happy endings. Tom suffered so much in the war. Why couldn’t life deal him a healthy reprieve? Actually, it does, and while it lasts it’s the most beautiful thing on Earth he has known. He loves her, truly loves her. She loves him too. But this is not a fairy tale. Like life, it’s messy and complicated. Things can’t always be the way we want them to be. Even so, we have our moments, moments of true happiness. Treasure these, says the film.

Many people will give the film five stars. That’s fine. Due to my disappointment, I give it four. Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë would have written a better ending.

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doptidopti

RAS

Recensito in Francia il 12 dicembre 2023

Très bien, merci !

J. Howell

I had read the book so bought the film.

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 21 novembre 2023

I was a little disappointed with the quality of this dvd as the sound was not good & it was very dark. The storyline was the same but not as good as the book, much more detail in the book.

J.A.Hallbauer ;Doc Halliday

Glück mit Findelkind?

Recensito in Germania il 24 novembre 2017

Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) hat im WK I an der Westfront gekämpft. jetzt zieht es in in die Einsamkeit, und er bewirbt sich für die befristete Stelle des Leuchtturmwärters auf der Insel Janus Rock vor Australien, 100 Meilen vom Festland entfernt. Bald heiratet er die bezaubernde Isabel Graysmark aus dem Dorf, das für den Leuchtturm zusändig ist.
Das Glück des Paares scheint perfekt, aber Isabel erleidet zwei Fehlgeburten. Nach der zweiten wird ein Boot ans Ufer von janus Rock gespült, darin ein Säugling, ein toter Mann und eine silberne Kinderrassel. Der Mann hat keine Papiere bei sich, und es gelingt Isabel, Tom dazu zu bringen, das Geschehene nicht im Logbuch festzuhalten und das Kind als ihres großzuziehen.

Bei einem Festlandsbesuch sieht Tom auf dem Friedhof eine in Schwarz gekleidete Frau (Rachel Weisz). Aus den Daten auf dem Grabstein wird klar, dass sie die Mutter des Findelkindes und Witwe des Toten aus dem Boot sein muss. Tom hinterlässt in ihrem Briefkasten einen Hinweis, aus dem hervorgeht, wo die Tochter der Frau ist. Er nimmt alle Schuld auf sich, Isabel überwirft sich mit ihm.

Natürlich ist es für das jetzt 4jährige Mädchen schwer, sich an seine richtige Mutter zu gewöhnen, und zum Wohl des Kindes gibt sie Isabel die Chance, die Kleine großzuziehen. Isabel ist vor die Wahl Kind oder Ehemann gestellt, wie wird sie sich entscheiden?

Der Film nach einem Roman von M.L.Stedman aus dem Jahre 2012, für den Regissseur Derk Gianfrance auch das Drehbuch verfasste, punktet mit toller Ausstattung und wunderbaren Naturaufnahmen, der sonnenbeschienenen, aber auch sturmumtosten Insel. Vor allem aber ist er mit den drei genannten Darstellern vorzüglich besetzt, Alicia und Michael sind ein derart wunderbar harmonisierendes Paar, dass es nicht wundert, dass sie seit dem Dreh auch privat zusammen sind. Alicia ist eine der bezauberndsten Darstellerinnen überhaupt, auch in ihrem Spiel mit dem Trauma der zwei Fehlgeburten ist sie einfach hervorragend, sodass man(n) es schwer hat, nicht für sie Partei zu ergreifen und ihr zu wünschen, das geliebte Mädchen behalten zu dürfen. dafür müsste sie allerdings Tom opfern.

Ein berührender Film, der bei mir vor allem wegen der wunderbaren Alicia Vikander nicht gleich wieder in Vergessenheit gerät.

Doc Halliday

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andy

Amazing story, brilliant film

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 13 marzo 2017

“The Light Between Oceans”, I found to be an excellent film. The acting from all the cast is superb, and the directing from Derek Cianfrance is brilliant (there is information within the Extra Features on the DVD regarding the his approach to his directing during the making of the film), the cinematography is outstanding, as is the whole feel of the film with regard to costumes, sets, music etc. Characters and especially those characters as given by the lead actors (Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz) are well defined and the narrative is given in a way that is paced brilliantly – it is not a rushed film and yet over the space of just a couple of hours you get a real feel for the length of time over which the story is told.

It is a multi layered story that begs the question – “What would I have done in that persons shoes?” and Derek Cianfrance, the cast and all involved in the film have conveyed that brilliantly. This is no small budget film, but it has managed to avoid being spoiled by Hollywood clichés and I would highly recommend watching it to anyone who appreciated a good story well told.

My review is of the “film” and not a review for the “film of the novel” if you see the distinction, as I think it can be unfair to make a comparison, as you are not really comparing “like with like”.

I did though, read the novel when it was first published and though that it was brilliant, and remember being surprised after finishing the novel to see at least one review that said something along the lines of “a good bit of Chick-lit”, as I found the story to be very intelligent and absolutely stunning, and “a good bit of Chick-lit” would not suggest “stunning” to me. The story, whether one finds it in the novel or as it is portrayed in the film is an excellent story, and I would recommend the story to anyone who enjoys a good story told well. Watch and enjoy the film, and it goes without saying that I would wholeheartedly recommend reading the novel.

The extra features on the DVD are definitely worth taking a look at.

On the DVD you get:

“The Light Between Oceans” (2 hours 7 minutes)
Scene Selection
Set Up:
Audio English 5.1, English 2.0
Audio Description
Audio Commentary with Director Derek Cianfrance and Film studies Professor Phil Solomo
Subtitles: Optional English SDH (For the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)
Bonus Features:
Bringing “The Light” To Life (16 minutes)
Lighthouse Keeper (5 minutes)

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