Moore gives a stunning performance and I believe that she thoroughly deserved her Oscar. And this makes the few occasions when she does break downĮven more powerful - we feel every ounce of her grief, of her anger, her fear and her despair. Alice is incredibly strong, incredibly brave. Moore resists all urges to overact in her role. She is on screen for almost all of the film - often in extreme close up. Still Alice is all about Julianne Moore’s performance.

Even after she has lost so much, she doesn’t feel finished with life. Even as the disease takes hold, she still has good days when she can find her way back to herselfĪnd her family. The point is that, despite everything that her illness has taken away, Alice is still Alice. In Still Alice, Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is 50, and a professor of linguistics at Columbia.She lives in the city with her husband John (Alec Baldwin).

It wants us to face this illness so that we can move towards a cure and so that we areĪble to understand what it is like to struggle with Alzheimer’s. However, Still Alice is also an important and inspirational film - it gives us a rare first person glimpse of what it is like to live with this disease.įor this is a film that wants to raise awareness of and educate us about a disease that needs our attention. It will make you feel desperately for all those people like Alice who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Now, I am not here to tell you that Still Alice is an easy watch - it will make you cry. When Alice was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, she was crushed.

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