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Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flickers in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer (Cate Blanchett). Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
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"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" does what technically masterful films so rarely do, inspiring a tremendous sense of warmth as well as admiration.
There's a glow to "Benjamin," which director David Fincher ("Zodiac") and cinematographer Claudio Miranda bathe in amber tones, lending a down-home quality to a picture that, visually, epitomizes sophistication.
Every shot is perfectly composed, and the special effects are artisan-like as well, incorporating Brad Pitt's likeness into the old/young body of his character, Benjamin Button, who is born in his 80s in 1918 New Orleans and proceeds to age backward. (Full review)