Review of The Age of Adaline (2015) by Diana R — 12 May 2015

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this movie. I felt Blake Lively´s performance was fenomenal, she truly made me feel the character´s emotions her loneliness, her being terrified of someone finding out, her longing for a normal life and her being a caring mother.

She was able to portray the class, elegance and composure that someone from the early 1900´s would have had; really make you feel she was from another time even though her surroundings were modern. By far my favorite part of the movie was the moment when Lively´s and Ford´s characters meet again, the intense emotions they are feeling are amazingly felt even though they, in that moment, are not able to let them be known for Lively´s character cannot reveal her secret and Ford´s character knows what he is thinking and seeing cannot possibly be true.

The mother/daughter bond in this movie is enchanting, really refreshing to see such a strong secondary story being told parallel to the love story. Seeing Ellen Burstyn´s performance really warmed my heart, seeing her act like the child around her mother, who was notably younger looking, was fun to watch.

My only complaints would be the fact that the narrator was so technical with all the medical and scientific terms it clashed with the soft almost poetic feel to the movie and my other complaint would be that we waited so long for her to confide a secret that had been keeping her afraid all this time and we didn't get to see the moment she actually confessed it.

It really is worth watching.