Julianne Moore is definitely present on ”the most appreciated actresses list” of plenty of film-goers. And this with good reason: remember her as Amber Waves in Bogie Nights (1997), Sarah Miles in The End of the Affair (1999), Laura Brown in The Hours (2002) or as Cathy Whitaker in Far from Heaven (2002). All these memorable roles almost got the gifted actress an Oscar, but it is her still fresh Still Alice role the one which might change the tonality from likely to certainly.
Still Alice is a drama movie brought by directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on a novel written by Lisa Genova and Richard Glatzer & Wash screenplay. The subject tackles on a female professor of linguistics, whose life turns 360 degrees once she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and starts forgetting words, then scheduled events, answers to questions which define her personality and this is only the beginning. What makes Dr. Alice Howland (played, of course, by our Julianne Moore) a highly dramatic character is not necessary the release of the disease itself, which is the intrigue, the problem trigger, but the fact that apart from having a successful carrier, she is also a mother of two. Fortunately, her two daughters (Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth) are old enough to cope with the idea of such a dramatic change in their lives, but age does not necessarily imply that a borderline health issue like Alzheimer’s will be easy to cope with. This difficulty is more obvious in the reaction and behavior of the younger girl, Lydia Howland.
The newly released trailer of Still Alice is introduced by the declaration of Dr. John Howland (played by Alec Baldwin): ‘’To the most beautiful and the most intelligent woman I’ve known in my entire life’’, a line which demonstrates the close relationships among characters and the importance of Dr. Alice in their lives and of Julianne Moore, who portrays a tormented, implicated, loving, forgetting and at times, ironic lead. After middle complications in the trailer, the conclusion drawn by Alice herself is a confession of strength, will power and determination: ‘’I am not suffering, I am struggling; struggling to be a part of things, to stay connected to who I once was. So, Live in the moment, I tell myself. It’s really all I can do: Live in the moment!’’
Still Alice will reach wide U.S.A. release starting from 16 January 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s5BDfOhhIM