The Age of Adaline (English)
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Cast: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, Harrison Ford, Ellen Burstyn
The Age of Adaline is a sweet, little run-of-the-mill romance on mortality and stopping time, and the rest of it. What makes the film stand out is Harrison Ford, who delivers one of those rock solid, understated performances that make acting look so simple.
The movie is about Adaline who was born on New Year’s Day in 1908. She grows up, falls in love, gets married and has a daughter Fleming. Adaline is widowed and 10 months after her husband dies, is involved in a freak accident, which ensures she will be 29 forever.
Even as Fleming grows older, Adaline doesn’t age and after an incident with the FBI, Adaline decides to say goodbye to her daughter and spend her life on the run, moving and purchasing new IDs at regular intervals of time.
The one thing that Adaline cannot afford to do is fall in love and that is precisely what happens one New Year’s Eve party when she meets Ellis Jones, a nerd who has made a stack of money creating an algorithm and is now a philanthropist.
The movie is comfortingly predictable right down to the Hindi movie ending. Never mind. It is lovely looking and all the cast are good especially Blake Lively as Adaline and, of course, Harrison Ford as William Jones, Ellis’ father who fell in love with Adaline when he was a young man. The concept is slightly creepy but Ford makes it all dignified and cool. Now we only have to wait for December and Han Solo to fly the Millennium Falcon again.
MINI ANTHIKAD CHHIBBER
