By Iain Blair

Just saw a great new film, “The Life Before Her Eyes,” a beautiful, haunting tale told in flashbacks that is not at all what you think it is. It’s directed by Vadim Perelman whose debut 2003 film “House of Sand and Fog” was Oscar-nominated. This is another intense, dreamlike film, with a great cast, including Uma Thurman as Diana, an art-history teacher living a seemingly idyllic life, but who’s haunted by the terrible events in her past. Evan Rachel Wood plays the young Diana and Susan Sarandon’s Eva Amurri plays her best friend. When the two girls are cornered in a high school bathroom by a deranged student gunman, they have to make the agonizing choice between which girl should live and which should die. Uma Thurman told me that the low budget film was shot on location in Connecticut, “and it has a great look.” The versatile actress, whose credits include “Pulp Fiction,” “The Producers” and “Dangerous Liaisons,” has already completed her next film, the romantic comedy “The Accidental Husband,” which she also produced. Like many actors, Uma has found that developing her own projects is “very satisfying, as finding good roles is always a problem.”

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