358 – The Light Between Oceans

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Listeners who remember our The Place Beyond the Pines episode will remember that this is a highly pro-Derek Cianfrance podcast. As his latest Roofman makes its TIFF world premiere, we’re looking back at his most recent theatrical release, 2016’s literary adaptation The Light Between Oceans. The film starred Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender as a post-WWI couple whose isolated life caring for an Australian lighthouse is upended when a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man and a crying baby. This melodrama about trauma, responsibility, and the ties that bind was once hotly anticipated before becoming a quickly forgotten Labor Day release.

This episode, we talk about how the final days of Dreamworks’ Disney deal led to its underwhelming release and our anticipation for Roofman. We also discuss Vikander’s Oscar win the previous year, Fassbender becoming overexposed as a leading man, and Rachel Weisz’s emotional turn as the mother of the stranded baby.

Topics also include the 2016 Venice Film Festival, Atonement as a comparison to the film, and Touchstone Pictures!

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:12.8	No, the right house.
0:13.6	I didn't get that.
0:14.9	We want to talk to Marilyn Hack.
0:15.8	Maryland Hacks and French. I'm from Canada water.
0:27.6	Dick Pooh What's your name?
0:44.2	Lucy.
0:45.5	It was lovely to meet you.
0:46.7	Hi.
0:48.1	Hi.
0:49.6	My sister had a terrible tragedy.
0:51.7	Her husband and their baby daughter were lost at sea.
0:55.0	You would have been your girl's age by now.
1:01.0	I have to tell people. It's her mother.
1:04.0	I'm her mother.
1:07.0	Someone knows that my girl is alive.
1:12.1	It'll be safe. I'll protect you, I promise.
1:16.1	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast with tickets to see Candy Bliss at Hamburger Mary's at the end of the month.
1:22.7	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had Lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong. The Oscar hopes
1:31.1	died, and we are here to perform the autopsy. I'm your host, Joe Reed. I'm here as always with
1:35.7	my telltale silver rattle. Chris file. Hello, Chris. Tinty tiny rattle. I understand you probably don't need tickets to see things at hamburger marries I
1:46.9	understand that but like it made the sentence work so
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