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I loved House of Sand and Fog, and I've been waiting five long years to see what director Vadim Perelman would come up with next. His latest effort, The Life Before Her Eyes, starring Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood and Eva Amurri, is a lovely, nuanced film packed with imagery, and bracketed by an intriguing storyline. The film revolves around Diana, played as a teenager by Wood and an adult by Thurman; the younger Diana was a survivor of a high school shooting, as as the 15-year anniversary of the tragic event nears, the older Diana begins to unravel.

Perelman is not a director who hand-feeds his audience easy answers. With House of Sand and Fog he made heavy use of its moody, gray and brown pallette to set a dark and unsettling mood. With The Life Before Her Eyes, he turns to brilliantly saturated hues of flowers and water to create a sublime tone that evokes what's going on with Diana. The perfect life with professor husband Paul (Brett Cullen) and daughter Emma (Gabrielle Brennan) that she's worked so hard to create is a fairy tale fantasy built on an unstable foundation of unresolved guilt, and we know from the first frames that, hard as she works to sustain it, it's as fragile as the petals of the flowers that embower her garden.

We have a new set of stills for you from the upcoming film The Life Before Her Eyes, starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. The film, directed by Vadim Perelman and based on the best-selling novel by Laura Kasischke, is a dramatic thriller about Diana (Thurman), a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life--and perhaps her sanity--on the fifteenth anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that took the life of her best friend.

The film flashes back-and-forth between the younger Diana (played by Wood) and her best friend Maureen (played by Eva Amurri, daughter of Susan Sarandon), and the older Diana, who is haunted by the increasingly strained relationship she had with Maureen as day of the school shooting approached. As older Diana's life begins to unravel and younger Diana gets closer and closer to the fatal day, a deeper mystery slowly unravels.

You can see more stills from the film in the gallery below. The film is set to open in limited release on April 18.