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Still Alice
2014 101 min France, United Kingdom, United States of America PG-13 18+
★8.1
Drama
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
🎭 Based on
«Still Alice»
byLisa Genova
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Description
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.
Budget:
$5M
US Gross:
$18.75M
Worldwide:
$44.78M
Starring
Julianne Moore
Actor
Alec Baldwin
Actor
Kristen Stewart
Actor
Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2015
— Best Actress
Golden Globe 2015
— Best Actress (Drama)
BAFTA 2015
— Best Actress
Academy Awards 2015
— Best Actress
Key opinion
Still Alice is widely lauded as a poignant and emotionally devastating portrait of early-onset Alzheimer’s, driven almost entirely by a career-defining performance from Julianne Moore. While the film is praised for its quiet, restrained approach to its difficult subject matter, critics remain divided on whether its narrative simplicity and predictable structure elevate the material or result in an underdeveloped, soap-like aesthetic.
| Acting | Julianne Moore delivers an exceptional, raw, and highly nuanced portrayal that anchors the entire film. | |
| Emotion | The film succeeds as a deeply moving, empathetic study of human fragility that forces the viewer to confront mortality and the importance of the present. | |
| Screenplay | The script is criticized for being modest and predictable, with some feeling it merely documents the disease rather than providing a complex narrative. | |
| Cinematography | Opinions on the technical execution, including the cinematography and score, are divided between those who appreciate their unobtrusive nature and those who find them uninspired or overly sentimental. | |
| Acting | The supporting cast, particularly Kristen Stewart, is seen by some as effectively subtle, while others argue that the secondary characters remain largely underdeveloped. | |
| Ending | The ending creates disagreement; some find its abrupt, unvarnished nature appropriate for the subject, while others find it lacking in resolution or confusing. |