Posted: Friday, 25 April 2008 10:26AM
The Life Before Her Eyes
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(R)
Evan Rachel Wood gets the angst and confusion of the teenage girl just right in this thoughtful, complicated film. Her high school best friend (Eva Amurri) seems to be far more grounded, but everything changes when both are part of a murdering rampage by a fellow student. We flash forward fifteen years later and meet up with an art professor (Uma Thurman) haunted by the memories of that nightmarish day at school. Director Vadem Perelman (House of Sand and Fog) keeps the mood both mysterious and melancholy. We can relate to and undestand how the past undermines our present, capable of our destruction. But it is muddled storytelling and ultimately unsatisfying. Fine acting, slow pace..it'll play just as well on DVD.
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