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The Light Between
Oceans (12A)
Directed by Derek Cianfrance
3/5
BRACE yourselves for a full-throttle melodrama about love, loss, fate and the moral dilemmas faced by a childless couple, because The Light Between Oceans unashamedly pulls at the heart strings.
Adapted from ML Stedman’s acclaimed debut novel, it centres on lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) and his wife Isabel (Alicia Vikander) who live off the coast of Western Australia.
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