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  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary 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 ...

Directed By: Vadim Perelman

Written By: Laura Kasischke, Emil Stern

  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m

The Life Before Her Eyes

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
38
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.2
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Summary 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 ...

Directed By: Vadim Perelman

Written By: Laura Kasischke, Emil Stern

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
38
24% Positive
6 Reviews
32% Mixed
8 Reviews
44% Negative
11 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
38
24% Positive
6 Reviews
32% Mixed
8 Reviews
44% Negative
11 Reviews

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100
Emotionally sophisticated, humane and worth talking about for hours.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
70
Though atmospheric and occasionally suspenseful, its gimmickry keeps it from being transcendent.
By Carina Chocano FULL REVIEW
50
Beautiful, horrifying, exasperating and just plain weird.
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40
Moviegoers may mistake The Life Before Her Eyes for an unduly long L'Oreal commercial featuring softly lit film stars moving languidly with swinging hair through overbearingly premonitory weather.
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33
Perelman's follow-up, The Life Before Her Eyes, finds him clumsily trying to outdo M. Night Shyamalan.
By Tasha Robinson FULL REVIEW
25
Confused, morally queasy, self-important mess.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
20
In a vile-movie competition between Michael Haneke’s "Funny Games" and Vadim Perelman’s The Life Before Her Eyes, Haneke’s film would win--but only because he’s working so much harder to be noxious.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.2
67% Positive
4 Ratings
17% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.2
67% Positive
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17% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Production Company 2929 Productions
Release Date Apr 18, 2008
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating R
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Tagline Diana's life is not what it seems.
Website http://www.lifebeforehereyes.com/
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Awards

New Hampshire Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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