Recently We Got This Covered got the chance to sit down with Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance. Currently out in theatres, and receiving praise from both critics and audiences, the film has also earned an Oscar nomination for lead actress Michelle Williams. Focusing on a married couple, the film charts their evolution over six years by cross cutting between time periods. In the present day, the couple is fighting to save their failing marriage. As we watch them struggle to rekindle the love that was once there, these scenes are juxtaposed with scenes from the past, where they were young and in love and happy as can be.
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With his adaptation of M. L. Stedman‘s bestselling novel, writer-director Derek Cianfrance wanted to make The Light Between Oceans a cross between a John Cassavettes movie and a Dean Lean film, a personal tale told against an epic backdrop. Cianfrance, both in his films and in person, proudly wears his influences on his sleeves, but The Light Between Oceans still features staples we’re now coming to expect from the filmmaker behind Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines.
From Cinelinx:
Directors’ trademarks is a series of articles that examines the “signatures” that filmmakers leave behind in their work. This month, we’re examining the trademark style and calling signs of Derek Cianfrance as director.
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Michael Fassbender is in negotiations to star in The Light Between Oceans, DreamWorks' adaptation of the M.L. Stedman novel.
Derek Cianfrance, who last directed the Ryan Gosling drama The Place Beyond the Pines, is directing the drama. The Light Between Oceans is set on an island off the coast of Western Australia after World War I.
A lighthouse keeper and his wife find a 2-month-old girl and a dead body in a rowboat and decide to raise the baby as their own. But what seems like a blessing soon turns tragic, as morality and love are tested.
