A woman's life isn't easy at 17 years old, and it doesn't get much better at 32, even when the woman is equipped with shimmering blonde hair and dazzling outfits that look they jumped straight out of a Ralph Lauren ad.
This cuticle-destroying difficulty-of-it-all dilemma is told with beautiful but occasionally unbearable and lingering angst in "The Life Before Her Eyes."
It's directed by Vadim Perelman ("The House of Sand and Fog," 2003) who definitely has a thing about women's hair, going overboard with the slow-motion swinging of perfect manes. Quite often he lapses into shampoo-commercial mode (you almost except the cast to declare that they recommend Lux) before waking up and swerving back to the plot.