Still Alice

Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart

Fine film. We watch a high-achieving female professor gradually succumb to the ravages of alzheimers. She and her family are extremely privileged, with a large, upper west side apartment, a beachfront house on LI. They seem to have the usual tensions common to all and are very supportive of her during her decline.

Even though the situation here was idealized JM succeeded in allowing us to feel the depths of her anguish, her frustration, her loss of self. For a mainstream hollywood film they did well with this topic and raised it above the disease-of-the-week genre.

7