I have been touting Blake Lively for years and even have
championed her as the actress I would want playing ‘Caitlin Star’. I always knew she had the talent to compete
with the top A-list Oscar contenders, and I have been proven right. Blake gives
an absolutely extraordinary and emotionally affecting performance in the
magical new film, ‘The Age of Adaline’, directed with superb understated
elegance by Lee Toland Krieger and written by J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador
Paskowitz.
Minor spoiler ahead (but is in the trailer).
The film also featured the fantastic veteran actress Ellen
Burstyn, who for the second time in less than six months (the other being “Interstellar”)
gives a tear-inducing turn by playing the generation older daughter of the main
character. The audience I saw the movie with was very emotionally engaged and
sat still in their seats through to the end of the credits—a real rarity amid
today’s hyper-stimulated bolt for the exits mentality.
I will give a full review/analysis of "The Age of Adaline" when time and creative energy allow me to give this beautiful film the justice it deserves.
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