Falling in love with an ageless beauty
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ADALINE BOWMAN is a woman with a past - a very, very long past. When we first meet her in 2014, she's in the process of getting fake identification papers because, you see, mystery women can be downright alluring, but there are complications to looking like a beautiful 29-year-old when you're actually about to turn 106.
If the premise in The Age of Adaline sounds absurd, it's because it is. Directed by Lee Toland Krieger and written by J Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz, this is a romantic fantasy that takes its cue from the Nicholas Sparks drama school and is so drenched in sentimentality that viewers would be well advised to bring umbrellas to the cinema.
A narrator explains Adaline's situation - a car accident, a lightning strike while drowning and some mumbo-jumbo about electron compression - and voila! We're duly informed that the fake ID thing is a process Adaline (played with restrained elegance by Blake Lively) goes through every 10 years or so because that's about the time it takes for people she's met in the previous decade to start wondering about her ability to stay forever young.
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