Forever Young with the Age of Adeline - A review

As a 2015 romantic drama, Age of Adaline is directed by Lee Toland Kriger and tells the story of a young woman Adaline Bowman, played by Blake Lively, who after car crash, becomes ageless - she stops growing older. So in the movie , after a near-fatal car accident some 80 years ago, the movie is about an 107-year-old woman with a face and body of a 29-year-old. The Age of Adaline also stars Harrison Ford as well as Ellen Burstyn as the daughter who grows up to astonishingly look years older than her own mother.

Adaline Closes Herself off to the World

 As the years roll on, she doesn't allow herself to get close to anyone and lives a pretty solitary existence. She wants to conceal her identity and avoid anyone discovering her secret. She meets an attractive bearded man, a philanthropist named Ellis (Michiel Huisman) and she battles against the self-imposed solitary lifestyle she has been living in. When her secret may become known, she sees that she will have to take greater control over her life, and Ellis  is certainly starting to complicate her life as well. Charismatic, Ellis Jones rekindles her love of life and romance. She goes away with him to spend a weekend with his parents and it appears as though the truth about her life will be uncovered.

Escape into Respectable Oblivion

For moviegoers, the film certainly offers quite a bit of escapism, allowing viewers to be taken back to a more romantic, less cynical time. Reviews aren't all overly positive for this respectable, if not a bit dull film. Quite a few people in the audiences were checking their watches waiting for the 110 minutes to end.  Fortunately the director of photography, David Lanzenberg,  does good work, and he uses his skills to ensure that the settings and period costumes allow for plenty of beauty which will transport movie goers into a world of peaceful, relaxing oblivion, and we all need that in the 21st century.