12-03-15 11:22 pm – Source: Het Parool
Alice (Julianne Moore) says in the film that she had been diagnosed with cancer prefer the Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Because she had not be ashamed. © /
Review
What does the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s with you, if you are still young? That question turns it into the film Still Alice. It is thanks to Oscar winner Julianne Moore that the film rises above the mean disease melodrama
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If the fifty Alice – linguistics professor, successful husband, three grown children – while jogging lost on the campus of Columbia University in New York, they will immediately understand that something is seriously wrong. Moments later, a doctor tells her that she has an early form of Alzheimer’s.
The speed of diagnosis says much about the increased awareness about this disease. In 1988 Heddy Honigmann’s fell filming of Bernlefs Chimeras with the protagonist until halfway through the quarter. Until then it was him and his surroundings, a mystery why his memory failed him dropped. Puzzling taboo disease is Alzheimer changed angstgegner of old people.
Who unlucky, like Alice, is overtaken by younger. The prospect of a humiliating degradation makes her distraught. Rather she had cancer, because they did not have to be ashamed, she says.
In a film about Alzheimer screenwriters do not have to worry about which way to go, because there is only one direction. Actors on the challenge to depict the demise convincing. In Chimeras impressed Joop Admiraal, in Still Alice Julianne Moore makes the decay gripping felt. As Alice in her house can not find the toilet and pees in her pants, we feel penetrating her despair at the loss of control over body and mind.
Sentimental tricks
It is thanks to Moore, who got the Oscar for her role, that
Still Alice protrudes above average disease melodrama. Who this great actress think away, see a film that avoids raw realism and sentimental tricks, such as clips from home movies in happier times, want to touch the viewer.
Little happy is the casting of Alec Baldwin as the husband of Alice. That his wife slowly slipping into oblivion, hardly seems to touch him. For the medical researcher work and promotion important.
Of the three children makes Kristen Stewart as wayward daughter impression. After Clouds of Sils Maria Olivier Assayas she convinces again with natural game.
disease is irreversible, also in Still Alice, but the disease here drill or an inexhaustible source of love
Today (12/03) more in Het Parool.: “That burnout may well alzheimer
(By: Jos van der Burg)
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