If you watch “This is Us” and bawl your eyes out every episode, LIFE ITSELF won’t be any different.
Life Itself stars Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde in a multi-generational love story that spans decades, not unlike This Is Us. But this one even spans across the globe with every story we see connected by a single event.
This trailer doesn’t really tell us much about the movie other than there’s love and happiness, but one quick shot of a little girl in the backseat of a car with glass shards falling towards her face indicates that there will be at least one tragedy in this movie. Again, considering what This Is Us does to audiences every single week, it should come as no surprise that Life Itself looks to walk the same path.
Over a series of four interweaving chapters and an epilogue, we follow a diverse group of individuals who are connected in surprising ways. It is a story about life, the many ways the story can change and grow, and how we are all connected at the end of the day.
My favorite part of the movie is that a good 20-30 minutes takes place in Spain and they speak Spanish the whole time they are there. I could really relate to this part of the story since I grew up with a family who, for the most part, only spoke Spanish growing up.
I went in with no expectations of this movie being good based on other reviews I had read beforehand. I laughed, I cried, and I absolutely fell in love with this movie. I related so much with everything that has happened so far in my own life, that the film really made a great impact on me.
Life Itself also stars Mandy Patinkin, Olivia Cooke, Laia Costa, with Annette Bening and Antonio Banderas, and it’s slated to hit theaters THIS WEEKEND on Friday, September 21, 2018.
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