31-08-2016 17:43 via theverge.com

The Light Between Oceans review: relentlessly old-fashioned, down to the sexual politics

Writer-director Derek Cianfrance specializes in tastefully staged, evocatively lit suffering. His breakthrough film, 2010’s Blue Valentine, tracks a young couple (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) falling in love, getting married, raising a child, then slowly disintegrating as a family. His follow-up, 2012’s The Place Beyond The Pines, follows two generations of misery, as a stunt man (Gosling again) turns to crime to support his estranged lover and their child, with long-term pain
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