The second night Thursday of
the 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival saw The Light
Between the Oceans, adapted from ML Steadman's 2012 bestseller
and directed by Derek Cianfrance, take center stage.
Stars Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, best
supporting actress Oscar last year for The Danish Girl, took to
the red carpet to present the film.
In the movie, Fassbender plays Tom, a World War Two veteran
who lives with wife Isabel (Vikander) on an Australian island.
After suffering a second miscarriage, Isabel takes it as a
sign when an infant washes ashore in a boat, convincing her
husband not to report the incident and raise the baby as their
own.
The film, which evolves in a crescendo of tragic
developments, will be released domestically by Disney this week
with international rollout starting next week.
Also on Thursday, Wim Wenders' 3D film The Beautiful Days of
Aranjuez, based on a play by Peter Handke on a man and a woman
who discuss love while sitting in a garden on a summer day,
premiered at the festival.
The movie is one of a number of German films and
co-productions screening at this year's fest.
Another festival premiere Thursday, for the Cinema nel
Giardino non-competitive section, was Gabriele Muccino's
Summertime, a drama about two young Romans who fly to San
Francisco to spend a week with two Americans, a homosexual
couple, they barely know.
The festival runs through September 10.
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