Drama

Still Alice

Shriver Films

Killer Films

Big Indie Pictures

BSM Studio

Lutzus-Brown

France

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

Julianne Moore

Kate Bosworth

Shane McRae

Hunter Parrish

Alec Baldwin

Seth Gilliam

Kristen Stewart

Stephen Kunken

Erin Darke

Daniel Gerroll

Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Maxine Prescott

Orlagh Cassidy

Rosa Arredondo

Zillah Glory

Caridad Montanez

Cal Freundlich

Charlotte Robson

Jean Burns

José Báez

Victoria Cartagena

Jeannette Gould

Takako Haywood

Samantha Kelly

Diane Kimbrell

Cat Lynch

Joanne Perica

Jamie Lee Petronis

Nancy Ellen Shore

Eha Urbsalu

Kelly Reichardt

Wash Westmoreland

Richard Glatzer

Nicolas Chaudeurge

Denis Lenoir

Kerry Barden

Tommaso Ortino

Allison Estrin

Lisa Genova

Paul Schnee

Stacey Battat

Ilan Eshkeri

Pamela Koffler

James Brown

Lex Lutzus

Emilie Georges

David Atlan Jackson

Jean-Baptiste Babin

Maria Shriver

Joel Thibout

Christine Vachon

Celine Rattray

Nicholas Shumaker

Marie Savare

Trudie Styler

Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns

Randall Poster

Jeong-Hwa Fonkalsrud

Megan Sanders

Ruy García

Tony Kushner

Meghan Currier

Lynn Appelle

Brien Sauchelli

Todd Haynes

Michele Baker

Steven Pinker

Anton Chekhov

Duncan Heath

Karl Hartman

Andrea Ulrich

Debora Lilavois

Declan Baldwin

Derek Wimble

James Baker

Mandy Lyons

Josine Cohen

Caroline Arnoul

Susan Reilly LeHane

Javier Bennassar

Chris Carroll

Susan Perlman

Catherine Farrell

Kimberly Braisin

Maria E. Garcia

Anton Gold

Jacqueline Weiss

Stephen McLaughlin

Matthias Gohl

Andrew Brown

Teddy Blanks

Leslie Shatz

Carissa Spatcher

'Still Alice' is a film that boasts a remarkable central performance from Julianne Moore. It tells the story of a University linguistics professor (Moore) as she is diagnosed a rare form of Auzheimer's disease.

Richard Glatzer's direction of the movie can be viewed as a parallel to his own life and personal struggle as he lived with ALS disease. 'Still Alice' is full of emotive shots as the characters show care and support to Moore as she tries to continue juggling her career and family life with the disease. Aspects such as the music and cinematography is given a very straight-forward approach to allow the actors' performances to tell the story and to add a true to life direction.

Based on the novel of the same name written by Lisa Genova, the screenplay is very faithfully adapted. The film really focuses on the story and the dialogue between the characters and some scenes and interactions are extremely moving thanks to how well it is written.

Julianne Moore is perfect as the main character. She portrays her struggle with the disease with so much inner strength and dignity. Moore is supported by a solid cast such as Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart but are outshone by her brilliant performance.

Overall, 'Still Alice' is a very good film. It is very touching and moving tale about coping with such a life changing and destructive disease. However, it seems to only be memorable due to Julianne Moore's incredible acting.

★★★½

CinemaSerf

At the ripe old age of fifty, renowned American linguist “Alice” (Julianne Moore) is at the top of her game and looking forward to a married life with three grown up children and a grand-child. Then she starts noticing that she is becoming a little forgetful. Those climbing the stairs then forgetting why you went up in the first place moments start to become more regular. She can’t recall the words for her lectures and presentations, indeed she can’t always even recall the topic she is supposed to be speaking about. These aren’t complete memory blackouts, but they concern her enough to go to doctor who confirms that she has early-onset Alzheimer’s. Her husband (Alec Baldwin) and her children rally around her, they do what they can, but in the end it is the distressing dismantling of a life that Moore presents quite poignantly here as her character’s illness worsens and it’s effects on her family resonate quite profoundly. The children themselves prove quite useful in portraying the differing responses to the illness, with independently-minded daughter “Lydia” (Kristen Stewart) who is already having a tempestuous relationship with her mother being one of the powerful litmus tests offered by auteur Richard Glatzer as they come to terms with the situation. There’s an especially effective scene where she essentially creates a trap-door, or exit strategy, for herself and that illustrates just how difficult it is for someone who’s life has always relied on her cerebral abilities, being gradually eroded to the point where reason becomes something blurred and complicated. It does flirt a little with sentimentality, but for the most part it is a thought-provoking, slightly observational, drama that raised quite a few question about our own mortality.

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