A newly-married couple, Tom and Isabel (Alicia Vikander), living on a remote lighthouse island off the west coast of Australia in the second decade of the twentieth century, find a baby washed ashore in a rowboat. We can't keep her.' Tom (Michael Fassbender) I was ready to witness a Nicholas Sparks imitator with The Light Between Oceans rather I enjoyed a whiff of Thomas Hardy.

Watch for more TIC movie nights in the New Year and plan to join us for a good film followed by a drink and snacks to start the weekend off in a relaxing way.'She doesn't belong to us. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.” A good lesson from a stunning film! To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. He tells her, “ You only have to forgive once. After the war, Frank is very discriminated against and shunned due to his German heritage and his wife marvels at his seeming inability to become angered and resentful of the prejudices he encounters. Via a flashback, we learn about him through his wife as she remembers her lost love. What I found most memorable about the film was a comment made by Frank, the German father of the lost little girl. In spite of his best intentions, that – of course – goes wrong and leads to emotional heartbreak and near disaster… While Tom tries to honor his family, he also tries to secretly reassure the grieving mother that her daughter is safe and well loved. The 3 main actors were excellent, giving convincing and emotionally true portrayals of their characters, and the cinematography was absolutely stunning!! Several years later the family returns to the mainland for a celebration, and Tom meets a grieving woman (Rachel Weisz) who is desperately searching for her daughter who was lost at sea in a small boat with her German husband… The little family leads a charmed life on their island and Lucy is nurtured and loved unconditionally. Isobel sees it as a gift from God and convinces Tom to bury the dead man and they raise the little girl, whom they name Lucy, as their own. Isobel is bereft, but one day, a small boat washes up on shore containing a dead man and a crying baby. To their joy, Isobel becomes pregnant, only to suffer a miscarriage…and then another.

He is surprised by the affection of Isobel, a lovely girl who lives on the mainland and they are married and head off to the island where they create a solitary, yet happy life together. Tom, a WWI veteran, is damaged by the atrocities he has seen as a soldier and feels his past will prevent him from having a happy future, so accepts the job of lighthouse keeper on a desolate island. Stedman and tells the story of Tom (Michael Fassbender), a Lighthouse keeper in Western Australia and his wife, Isabel (Alicia Vikander). This beautiful film is based on the debut novel by M. On Friday, 11 November, we had our first #TilburgInternationalClub movie evening of the club year at Cinecitta to see the film The Light Between Oceans.

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