Un amore senza tempo

Out of sync in love and storytelling: An adaptation of the graceful romance hits the screen with an ungainly thud. Lack of chemistry is a big problem.

"The Time Traveler's Wife" is a modern day fable of love in the face of a genetic anomaly that keeps tossing a guy named Henry, naked and quivering, in and out of his better half's life at the most unpredictable and inconvenient of times. This happens first when young Clare is 6 and alone in a meadow and a 36-year-old naked stranger calls to her from behind the bushes. He asks for her blanket and wants to say "Hi." Now, that is a very tough love-at-first-sight moment to pull off with the innocence that Audrey Niffenegger managed in the graceful book on which the film is based. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4415 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 14 agosto 2009