“The film is about love, duty, loyalty,
conscience… but there’s also self-preservation. Sometimes
when we talk about violent situations, we talk about heroism
but not enough about real humanity, not about the primal
qualities we humans possess.”
— Vadim Perelman
Starring Academy Award®-nominee UMA THURMAN (Kill Bill) and
EVAN RACHEL WOOD (Across the Universe, Thirteen), The Life
Before Her Eyes is the new film from Vadim Perelman, the
acclaimed director of House of Sand and Fog. The Life Before
Her Eyes is an intense and visually evocative drama about
the loss of youth, investigating how a single moment in time
can define an entire life. Based on Laura Kasischke’s
visionary novel, the story hinges on a pivotal
confrontation: two high school girls held captive by a
gunman and forced to make the terrifying choice as to who
will live and who will die.
The Life Before Her Eyes explores the reverberations
stemming from the collision of past and future, reality and
dream. Life can end in an instant—yet the echoes of possible
futures remain inescapable. Moving backwards and forwards in
time, it combines the dramatic intensity of Sophie’s Choice
with the eerie mystery of a ghost story like The Others.
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