The Time Traveler’s Wife Review
When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library, they realize that Henry is actually a time traveler. Clare knows more about this. Henry is not aware of the situation because he has not yet had enough time. Henry falls in love with the young woman.
On one of his journeys to different times, he met his future wife, Clare, who was 6 years old. Painter Clare marries her when they meet again after years. At first he will be tested with a sense of loneliness when he thinks he can cope with the sudden disappearance of her husband. The film is based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger.
“Time is nonsense,” said Douglas Adams. He recommended it so that we don’t get too obsessed with time travel in the extraordinary “Hitchhiker” books. This is especially true when watching “Time Traveler’s Wife.” Because the film is not interested in the nature and scientific infrastructure of traveling back and forth in time. Instead, he considers it an important obstacle for two loving people; makes the “bad guy” of a love story. In fact, I don’t remember seeing a film where time travel and romance flirt with each other so closely.
Henry (Eric Bana) travels unintentionally in “time”, which we don’t quite understand why. For example, while kissing a beautiful girl, she finds herself stark naked in the forest in another year. Clare (Rachel McAdams) is a witness to Henry’s commute, from the time she was a little girl having a picnic in the meadow to a young woman. Love doesn’t give time.
The German director Robert Schwentke, whom we have been closely following since the Tattoo of 2002, came out of his second Holywood essay after the Flightplan with Jodie Foster. He prefers to tell a great love story over time rather than the sci-fi aspect of traveling, and he succeeds.
Bruce Joel Rubin, who scripted Audrey Niffenegger’s book of the same name, plays a major role in this. You will remember that Rubin had received an Oscar for “Ghost” in 1990. Moreover, in a film with a lot of dialogue, where the director manages most of them with angle-counter shooting scales, the performance of the leading actors is also very effective. Two sensible faces: Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams.
It is not difficult to understand how they feel at the moment when they look at each other, in their measured games. Speaking of McAdams, the fabric is reminiscent of “The Notebook,” in which he also starred, but that’s all. Director Schwentke is fortunate to have worked with such talented actors in telling his story that could easily slip into a boring line.
“Time Traveler’s Wife” is dedicated to couples who want to watch a romantic movie. He does not start a new era of this kind, but he puts his time journey as a big obstacle in front of love and makes him watch with interest in terms of testing whether love can overcome this obstacle.
Apart from the mischief of the little girl Alba, there is neither a negative word for the actors nor the directing. Any movie that does what it promises is good. There is no objection to the message, “Every minute you spend with a person you love is very important”. But don’t expect a new “The Notebook”.
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The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston, Jane McLean, Michelle Nolden, Arliss Howard, Katherine Trowell, Matt Birman, Brooklynn Proulx, Carly Street, Bart Bedford, Fiona Reid, Maggie Castle
Screenplay by: Jeremy Leven, Bruce Joel Rubin
Production Design by: Jon Hutman
Cinematography by: Florian Ballhaus
Film Editing by: Thom Noble
Costume Design by: Julie Weiss
Set Decoration by: Patricia Cuccia
Art Direction by: Peter Grundy
Music by: Mychael Danna
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, brief disturbing images, nudity and sexuality.
Distributed by: New Line Cinema
Release Date: August 14, 2009
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