Still Alice (2014)
Directed by Richard Glatzer
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
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Julianne Moore won her only Oscar in 2014’s STILL ALICE in which she portrayed a very sympathetic victim of early-onset Alzheimer’s.
…if you think Julie Christie and Julianne Moore nailed the encroaching horror of Alzheimer’s in their very fine movies – “Away from Her” and “Still Alice” respectively…
Why is it that this cramped family saga should have a reach and a clutch that were denied to other studies of dementia, like “Away from Her” (2006) and “Still Alice” (2015)?
Julianne Moore won an Oscar in “Still Alice” (2014).
There have been some powerful movies about this subject matter (e.g. Still Alice, Away From Her, Iris) but writer-director Florian Zeller tackles it from an unexpected viewpoint – through the eyes of the sufferer.
There have been some good dramas about people sliding into dementia, like “Away From Her” and “Still Alice,” but I confess I almost always have a problem with them.
In a marital mismatch of a kind unseen since viewers of The War Zone were asked to believe that Tilda Swinton had settled down with Ray Winstone, Baldwin and Moore potter tenderly around one another, she like a tiny porcelain figurine that has somehow landed in his blundering, baseball-mitt paws.
It’s the best performance I’ve seen in a bad movie since Julianne Moore won an Oscar for “Still Alice.”