THE AGE OF ADALINE “Adaline is fine,” he thought, “but she’s no Daenerys Targaryen.”
  • THE AGE OF ADALINE “Adaline is fine,” he thought, “but she’s no Daenerys Targaryen.”

Poor Ellen Burstyn! She sure is having a moment of getting typecast as the aged daughter of artificially youthful parents. First, she was Matthew McConaughey's improbably ancient child in Interstellar. This time, her mom's an immortal Serena Van Der Woodsen Blake Lively in The Age of Adaline, a movie that resembles a Taylor Swift music video, only with less charisma and lasting an hour and a half. Starring Lively as a woman who stops aging after she drives her car off the road and some weird junk science gets word-vomited by an omniscient narrator, The Age of Adaline is a low-rent Benjamin Button, without the benefit of being based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. It's a clunky, luminous mess that ultimately suggests that a person who has lived to be over 100, raised a daughter, traveled the world, learned a ridiculous number of languages, and had a lot of adorable pets hasn't lived until she finds a man.

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