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

Caleb 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

Gail Yudain

Cal Freundlich

Kelly Reichardt

Richard Glatzer

Wash Westmoreland

Lisa Genova

Denis Lenoir

Kerry Barden

Allison Estrin

Paul Schnee

Tommaso Ortino

Nicolas Chaudeurge

Stacey Battat

James Brown

Pamela Koffler

Lex Lutzus

Ilan Eshkeri

Marie Savare

Christine Vachon

Maria Shriver

Celine Rattray

Trudie Styler

Emilie Georges

Nicholas Shumaker

Jean-Baptiste Babin

David Atlan Jackson

Joel Thibout

Declan Baldwin

Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns

Randall Poster

Meghan Currier

Chris Carroll

Derek Wimble

Lynn Appelle

Catherine Farrell

Michele Baker

Susan Perlman

Megan Sanders

James Baker

Brien Sauchelli

Karl Hartman

Susan Reilly LeHane

Jeong-Hwa Fonkalsrud

Kimberly Braisin

Mandy Lyons

Andrea Ulrich

Javier Bennassar

Ruy García

Debora Lilavois

Josine Cohen

Tony Kushner

Steven Pinker

Todd Haynes

Anton Chekhov

Duncan Heath

Caroline Arnoul

Maria E. Garcia

Jacqueline Weiss

Anton Gold

Stephen McLaughlin

Matthias Gohl

Andrew Brown

Teddy Blanks

Leslie Shatz

Drama

Still Alice

Shriver Films

Killer Films

Big Indie Pictures

BSM Studio

Lutzus-Brown

France

United Kingdom

United States of America

'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.