Review of Still Alice (2014) by Lasttimeisaw — 28 Feb 2015

Rather surprisingly I found out this little film is opened in Cairo this weekend, just after Moore’s Oscar triumph, as happiness often befalls unexpectedly, one year ago, I would never imagine this could happen to my favourite actress, at an age considered as the dead-end for most actress, she manages to pull off a such a landslide victory for late bloomers, more unbelievable is that it is from such a low-key director-team Glatzer and Westmoreland, whose previous Errol Flynn biopic THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD (2013) is a total fiasco.

Life is always unfair, in BIRDMAN (2014, 8/10), the has-been actor Riggan Thomson motives himself with a hip mantra “sixty is the new thirty”, but not for for Dr. Alice Howland (Moore), a linguistic professor at Columbia University, who has just passed her 50-year-old birthday, her life will slump into the worst scenario due to the early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Her previous perfect life, with a loving husband John (Baldwin), three grown-up children with the forthcoming twins from her eldest daughter Anna (Bosworth), plus a plum profession, will all be predestined to plunge into a void.