The Age of Adaline (2015)

The title of this film is a statement that leads to the question, What age? What is the age of this person named Adaline -- assuming Adaline is a person and not a pharmaceutical.

Adaline was born in San Francisco in 1909. In 1937, she is involved in a car accident that, as she finds out in the years that follow (as we do too, with the help of a mysterious male narrator), results in her not aging. When suspicions arise, Adaline moves on, changing identities. Most of the film takes place in the present, making Adaline 106 years old.

For a time, Adaline lived in England. It was in England that she began a five-week romance with an American student who also happens to be from San Francisco. At one point in the film, a flashback, we see Adaline in a taxi pulling up beside San Francisco's Alamo Square Park, where a young man sits on a bench with his back to her, a velvet box in his hand. "Keep driving," she tells the driver. It's another half hour before we learn that the young man in the park is the father of her current suitor, a young man who, like his father, she is trying hard not to fall for.

Most of this film was shot in Vancouver. Adaline works as a museum archivist at what is IRL the Vancouver Art Gallery. In fact, the area where she works was, until a couple years ago, the VAG's Library and Archives, until it was converted into what? a VIP lounge for donors? Also working with her is Kenneth (played by actor Hiro Kanagawa) and two other (nameless) colleagues, one of whom is the equally ageless former VAG librarian Cheryl Siegel, who retired from the gallery in 2015 after thirty years of service. That's Cheryl in the picture up top, sitting in the background, far right.