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Imaginative, impetuous and wild Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) can’t wait for her adult life to begin. Whiling away the final days of high school in the lush springtime, Diana tests her limits with sex and ...( read more 
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MCT:August 20, 2008
This movie was all over the place and the repetitive flashbacks were starting to annoy me. At the end of the movie you realize all of the confusing and annoying things about the movie weren?t there by accident, but on purpose. However, I felt it was a little too late. I had already disconnected from the story somewhere in the last half of the movie. The search for the "ah hah!" moment was just too exhausting.
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MCT:August 19, 2008This is definitely a movie that kept me very attentive. A really heart felt journey from a single most horrible event throughout a lifetime. Very well made movie with a good story.
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MCT:August 18, 2008
Im still trying to figure out what I really feel about this film. It was definately different and did keep my attention from beginning to end which must be a good thing. Performances from Evan Rachel Woods and Uma Thurman were very good and were pefect for the roles.
I really enjoyed watching the friendship between Diana and Maureen; two girls who couldn't be more different but yet the best of friends. However on one fateful day in high school leads to one of them being haunted for the rest of their lives.
I have to say there was times when I was confused in this film but when it comes to the end it all makes sense but at the time your trying to figure it out while carrying on with the story.
I really liked the method of seeing the story in past and present and some of the editing to show this was done well such as when in a flashback Maureen was teaching Diana how to drive and she needs to brake hard before colliding with something which then jumps to the present with Diana braking hard because she was lost in thought.
A good movie with an orginal concept but maybe not something you could watch again in a hurry. -
MCT:August 18, 2008This is an emotional and gripping tale. I was very pleased with the writting and direction of the film. The cinematography was outstanding. This is one of the most exciting art films ever produced. I'd say this film is on par with anything Danny Boyle or Paul Thomas Anderson has directed.
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MCT:August 14, 2008For a smiliar concept, but one that is far better executed, see Stay. This film is all over the place.
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MCT:August 12, 2008This movie was actually a really good movie, I wasn't sure of what it was about or what to expect from it. But it was defiantely a great movie, it is extremely touching and moving movie. Although I still don't get the ending and have figured out who is dead and who isn't it was still a great movie, that made you think about the choices that are made and the effect it has on other people around you. Highly Recommended.****
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MCT:July 29, 2008
Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood (playing the same character in two different times) give good performances, but the script of this decent story drags the whole thing down. -Trevor
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MCT:July 25, 2008Watch free full The Life Before Her Eyes film online now..!! http://openguys.org/films/2008/06/24/the-life-before-her-eyes-watch-free-film/
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MCT:July 11, 2008
A drama with just a small of amount of thriller mixed with mystery things. The movie jumps back and forth in the character's life story (Uma Thurman) . Story was decent along with some twists aswell. Anyway just an average movie , some will like it others will not i guess.
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MCT:July 10, 2008
Evan Rachel Wood is simply one of the greatest actress of her generation, and her life is just "Begingnig".. well written and well directed, and a very poethic film about life and dreams.
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MCT:July 4, 2008
It was beautiful, I mean gorgeous to look at, but the film itself was not very good. Uma and Evan Rachel were both excellent, but it drifted in and out, trying to hard to be cinematic-ally dreamy.
The ending was abrupt, the water scenes were annoying, and the repetitive flashbacks became old after the first 3 times. It was also confusing, trying to figure out when Uma was having crazy moments, and what was really happening, but it's possible that by then I had zoned out.
I'm going to read the book and hope it fares better. -
MCT:July 1, 2008
Pretty good, it kept me interested.
SPOILER: For those confused about the ending, The young Diana was having a 'dying vision' in the bathroom after she was shot. The older Diana's (Uma Thurman) life never came to be...obviously because she died. -
MCT:June 28, 2008
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)
director: Vadim Perelman
starring: Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri, Brett Cullen, Gabrielle Brennan
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MCT:June 26, 2008
This was pretty good.A good Suspense/Thriller type flick,Good cast.A story of What would you do in this situation and the haunting memories that arise in the future.Check it out =)
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thought this flim is great there were difently thing that need impovement. the acting was great the prat all three of the main actress. I was also in to the great dream like scence but the plot need to be tieter then it bwas it kept on getinng of point. also it need to of been ashort flim because eventually it got really boring and i not long cared what was going to happen any more. Over all i think it a flim that should be watched for at lest trying to do something intersting and strange
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MCT:April 27, 2008
i don't care, if Uma is in it i'll watch anything, AND hey Evan Rachel Wood is like Marilyn Mansons girl friend! now i just have to see this one! eheheh
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MCT:April 7, 2008
I got to see an early screening of Life Before her Eyes, (AKA In Bloom) the new, much-anticipated film from Vadim Perelman, director of House of Sand and Fog and the upcoming Angelina Jolie film, Atlas Shrugged. Based on Laura Kasischke's novel The Life Before Her Eyes, In Bloom follows two parallel timelines: one that begins in the weeks preceding that opening scene and one that jumps ahead a good fifteen years, focusing on a much-changed Diana, now being played by a jumpy and tense Uma Thurman.
The exact timeline of the film is left murky, with the scenes featuring Young Diana no different, stylistically, than the 'present day' scenes. Young Diana doesn't appear at all to be living in the past, and Older Diana doesn't inhabit any kind of futuristic world. It's a somewhat puzzling, but acceptable dramatic choice for Perelman to make, and he presses the intimate connection between the two timeframes by aggressively juxtaposing them. Scenes in Young Diana's world sometimes have a duration of only a few seconds, before we cut back to Older Diana's world for a few more seconds, and so on. Older Diana is an average teacher with a husband and an emotionally troubled daughter, but she still focuses much of her energy on replaying that day in her mind over and over, torturing herself for some reason that's unknown to us. Until the closing moments, Perelman chooses to hide from us exactly what happened in that bathroom, although it's not much of a mystery. I had already written the correct answer in my notes fifteen minutes into the film.
Perelman seems to be quite taken with Evan Rachel Wood's face and body -- not that I blame him -- devoting shot after luxurious, carefully-staged shot to her diving and swimming or sprawled out in bed or a million other poses. The effect is to give her character a breezy, carefree spirit that's completely absent in the present-day incarnation. As played by Thurman, Diana is driven by an invisible anxiety and seemingly always prepared for the worst. She stares and puzzles over every word her young daughter says as they eat some frozen yogurt, and when the daughter pipes up that she'd rather have had ice cream, Diana curtly reminds her that frozen yogurt is better for you. So what happened to turn an angelic layabout into a twitchy, volatile health-Nazi? Again, Perlman doesn't want you to know until the time is right. Putting all of his eggs into that basket turns out to be something of a mistake, because the way the chips fall doesn't exactly create the kind of emotional payoff that the audience is expecting by that point.
Wood is an actress of growing reputation, and In Bloom gives her an opportunity to do some good work, playing a character who makes small attempts at being rebellious -- swimming in a neighbor's pool uninvited, dating a local bad boy -- but is probably just as naturally conservative as Maureen, who is on a religious kick and seems prepared for the life of a boring Christian, as Diana notes. She's too bright to get into any serious trouble, and there's one resonant scene in the present-day when the two incarnations of her character tie together nicely. Breaking down into tears after getting some bad news, Older Diana begins to defend herself, saying that she always thought if she cared for her daughter, helped her students and loved her husband, things would turn out right for her. She's a character who is fundamentally able to grasp how random tragedy continues to find her. Life Before Her Eyes, is structurally uneven at times, and definitely not as profound in its revelations as it wants to be, but with strong acting and a strong visual palette, it's a success.
I hope it gets to more screen this spring.
Vince
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MCT:March 12, 2008
I saw the trailer today, and it looks very interesting. It'll be good to see Uma play a serious role again, it seems she only does rom-com type movies at the mo. It also stars Evan Rachel Wood from 'Thirteen' and 'Pretty Persuasion'.
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