Commentary: The Light Between Oceans & Complete Unknown By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor The Light Between Oceans – Directed by Derek Cianfrance who got wonderful reviews for Blue Valentine (2010) (click for T&T post) starring Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams as a couple on their last legs of marriage, and mixed reviews for The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) (click for T&T post) which is not easy to sum up in one sentence, but is where Gosling met now wife Eva Mendes. His latest film The Light Between Oceans (based on a novel by M. L. Stedman) is where Michael Fassbender and Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander fell in love.…