Review of Still Alice (2014) by The__Showman — 28 Feb 2015
A highly successful novel making its way into theaters, 'Still Alice' is an extraordinary family drama written by Lisa Genova. Julianne Moore performance as Dr. Alice Howland is exceptionally wonderful.
Her performance in the shoes of 'Alice' proves that she is a prefect match for Academy Award 'Best Actress'. A 100 minute drama is based on a linguistic professor 'Dr. Alice Howland' who develops an early onset of Alzheimer's disease and starts forgetting the words, places, incidents and also people.
She has a beautiful family with a troublesome youngest daughter Lydia played by Kristen Stewart. This 100 minute journey shows the decline of Alice from a brilliant lexicon to a dreadful Alzheimer patient.
For the first 80 minutes, it is a terrifying portrayal of Alice where one gets doubt on oneself that he/she is having Alzheimer's disease, but the last 20 minutes is long heinous drama in the family for which one can simply walk out of theater.
The appreciative thing in the movie is Julianne's performance and also the technical team who were behind this movie. Some extraordinary locations like the beach, campus of Columbia University are well pictured and also awfully directed.
It is a one time watch but if you like Julianne's performance you can have it for more than 10 times. Its just 'Julianne', 'Julianne' and 'Julianne'.
This review of Still Alice (2014) was written by The__Showman on 28 Feb 2015.
Still Alice has generally received very positive reviews.
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