The Time Traveler’s Wife
Director: Robert Schwentke
A film that belongs to the realm of romantic fiction where hoochie-coochie meets hocus-pocus.
Eric Bana is Henry, a Chicagoan we meet at age six as he’s being magically transported away from a fateful car accident. As young Henry shivers on the snowy roadside, he’s consoled by an older version of himself.
Henry’s love interest is Clare (Rachel McAdams) whom he meets as a young girl. Before you can say “chrono displacement,” the two have fallen in love.
Bana’s and McAdams’ performances rise above the shaky material and the film is gorgeous to look at. If you can get past the calendar gymnastics, The Time Traveler’s Wife works as affecting allegory of love that persists even when the lover is gone — really gone.
Extras include the featurette Time Traveler’s Wife: Love Beyond Words.
