The most anticipated this year at the Venice Film Festival, Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander couple seduced Thursday personally and professionally disappointed with “The Light Between Oceans”, a drama directed by Derek Cianfrance competing for the Golden lion at the Mostra.
Smiling and somewhat nervous, Fassbender and Vikander received loud applause as he entered the press room, something that the film failed in its first projection festival, where it was received with timid palms and some boos.
a film that many consider a love story but to Fassbender is “a story of life”.
Based on the novel by Australian ML Stedman, the action takes place after the First World War not by chance, said the Irish actor, who stressed the importance for the characters having gone through one of the most terrible events of the history of mankind.
“is a film about life, about people doing things and making decisions that do not want to hurt anyone,” a story about forgiveness but also on immigration, with a German character, Frank, to they treated very badly on the small island of Australia where the film takes place.
in this regard, Fassbender said that what you see in the film that suffers Frank “is something we see today, with many people dying at sea, with how people, full of prejudices, reacts to foreigners who come to their countries. “
a subject that is not, however, the center of the film, which tells how Tom Sherbourne (Fassbender), a veteran of world War I, is isolated from the world by accepting a job of lighthouse keeper on a remote Australian island where he meets Isabel (Vikander), with which marries.
After two abortions, the couple begins to crumble when a boat arrives to the island with a dead man holding in his arms a baby. Decide to stay with him and hide the circumstances of their arrival, they will discover little by little.
“It’s about people that survives and adapts, which is one of the most amazing things about human beings, which may be positive after living terrible events, “said Fassbender.
Meanwhile, Vikander pointed to the consequences of acts as the main theme of the film and the fact that the island where the couple lives becomes “in his emotional prison” which they believe have built a bubble that can contain everything and keep them from seeing their context in the world.
a great drama actress attracted by history. “I love this kind of tragedy about real people, about life, about people who want a family, a future, children …” said Vikander
But also because its director -. “I am a big fan of their work “- and the presence of Fassbender -” one of the most brilliant actors there. “- And he also acknowledged that the first day of shooting was very nervous about working with them.
“But I had people who picked me up if I fell or pushing me when I needed it” in addition to “support Michael in the most complicated scenes, “he said smiling.
While Fassbender highlighted the freshness they bring the actors who are still at the beginning of their careers, as Vikander, with” hunger for acting and who is given an opportunity and takes it with both hands. “
” We had to be a certain way a team, support each other on, provoke, trust … it was a very intense but very satisfying experience, “he added actor of “Inglorious Bestards” or “Shame”.
Fassbender and Vikander, who began a relationship after meeting on the set, are in “the Light Between Oceans” far from his best performances. The “Steve Jobs” or “12 Years a Slave” in the case of Irish-his two nominations for the Oscar or “A Royal Affair” or “The Danish Girl” for the Swedish, who won the Oscar for best Supporting actress for the latter work.
Ni Cianfrance, who sought to adapt a story for over a year, and the players besides Fassbender and Vikander are also Rachel Weisz or Jack Thompson manage to convey emotions that made the novel a bestseller in 2012.
a novel that came the director of the hands of Steven Spielberg and that Cianfrance is a story about the danger of making decisions based on emotions, without good characters or bad. “They are simply human beings who make emotional decisions and that has consequences”
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