Latest THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS TV Spots Witness the latest THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS TV spots! The film, written and directed by Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine), stars Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, and Rachel Weisz. THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS will be released in theaters on September 2. A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.