Director Lee Toland Krieger
Staring Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford
Rated M
Score 4/6

A young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After many solitary years, she meets a man who complicates the eternal life she has settled into.

I vaguely remember seeing trailers for this one at the friendly neighbourhood cinema, though I don’t feel to guilty about waiting for the DVD release if only to avoid being the only single person in the cinema, though to all the single men out there you shouldn’t purposely avoid all romantic movies because they are ‘chick flicks’ you should only avoid romantic comedy genre because they are highly clichéd and have a tendency to paint male-female relationships in a negative light, possibly one of the worst offenders of this is the 2010 movie The Back-up Plan.
I’m completely unfamiliar with director Lee Toland Krieger’s work, he offered up something that was kind of interesting. I also liked what seemed to be a brief homage to the 1986 movie Highlander in the form of a glimpse into a room containing Adeline’s antiques. Though if you think about antique possessions are to be expected in any movie when there is a character that has lived as long as Adeline has.
Though I have seen a few of her movies I wouldn’t regard myself overly familiar with Blake Lively’s body of work I actually thought that she gave a pretty decent performance. I also thought that Hugh Ross who gave a voice over narration for the movie gave The Age of Adaline an almost storybook quality.