If only Cate Blanchett took gerovital

Rating: 3/10 (11 July 2009)

Beautifully designed and shot. The film's unusual premise invites you to see it so as to understand how it will resolve. Yet the film drags on predictably. It tries to take on art-house lines, so there are none. In this way, it is something of a deluded mainstream project.
The sense of mood that is created as time passes and histories unfold seems muted and unable to give the necessary counterpoint to the dramatic crisis.
Beautiful people and some poignant moments did not make this film compelling. The novelty of aging in reverse wears thin and is simply propped up by clever imagery. The love story is curiously impotent.
It would appear Hollywood has impressed itself again. But they have mistaken craft for art.