STILL  ALICE

1.                                                                                         1.      Initial release December 5, 2014 (USA)

2.  Director: Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer
3. Running time: 99 minutes
4. Awards: Academy Award for Best Actress, more
5. Nominations: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
6. Cast; Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Alic Baldwin, Hunter Parrish

Still Alice is to make you cry. And it succeeds, even if the methods applied by directors are obvious. Alice is played by Julianne Moore, a renowned linguistics professor afflicted with a very rare form of Alzheimer’s that is genetically passed.

Alice is barely 50 and already the symptoms are impossible to ignore. She gets lost on a jog around university where she works: she introduces and reintroduces herself to people in short order: and words, which have been Alice’s life are becoming increasingly elusive.

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This is all horrifying to watch, and the inevitability of Alice’s fate doesn’t soften the blow. But for all the bleakness in Still Alice, the movie never loses its lustre. Alice is essentially the heroine of a Nancy Meyers  movie. Her anguish far exceeds the midlife heartache of the protagonists. But there’ still something so tidy about Alice’s existence her perfect kitchen, healthful home cooked meals, three loving kids, happy marriage and a dazzling career.

Alice is married to John, a doctor, played by Alec Baldwin and the pair has two daughters and a son, all of whom are doing fairly well in the scheme of things.

Something Alice’s situation feels false, but the actress is ferociously authentic. And the directors are smart to keep a tight focus on Moore.

When Alice first visits a neurologist, one gets to know Alice during these scenes. She’s intelligent and polite, even as she clearly thinks the doctor’s queries are inane. When the reality of her situation begins to set in, Alice’s fear and anxiety turn at times, to hysteria. In other hands, these moments could veer into melodrama, but Moore earns the audience’s empathy. Her glossy circumstance disappears into the background and all that can be seen is an ailing woman, overwhelmed by her fate.