Still Alice
A distinguished linguistics professor is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's and fights to hold on to her family, her work, and her sense of self.
Academy Awards, Best Actress win, 2015
Still Alice follows Alice Howland, a renowned professor of linguistics at the height of her career, who begins to lose words and misplace herself in familiar places. A diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's, made crueller by its heritable form, sets her and her family on a course of steady decline. The film stays close to Alice as she tries to preserve what she can of the person she has been.
That her expertise is language sharpens the tragedy: the self that words once held can no longer be held by them. The film offers a clear-eyed account of mourning a self that is still living, and of dignity sought in the face of loss. Julianne Moore won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2015, and it is based on the novel Still Alice by Lisa Genova.
Details
- 2014
- United States
- English
- Film