Thursday, January 29, 2015
February Outing: Still Alice
This month's pick is Still Alice, for which Julianne Moore
has been winning top movie awards for her portrayal of a woman battling
early-onset Alzheimer's. I'm well aware that this is a painful topic
for some of you, as it is with me because both my parents died of the
disease. But when I learned that much of the story line is about a
woman's efforts to come up with strategies to help her endure what's
happened, I decided to see the film and to invite other Movie Club
members to join me if they wish to do so. We'll have to wait and see
whether this was a good or a bad decision.
We'll be seeing Still Alice on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at the Varsity Cinema (Bay & Bloor) for the 12:45 screening, meeting about 20 minutes earlier near the box office, as always. My regrets to those whose Life classes clash with this timing, but choosing the later time of 3:45 would meaning going to a restaurant afterward at dinner time, when we would be expected to order full meals, which is not what all of us want to do. Make sense?
Speaking of eating, we'll go to the Bloor Street Diner, so please email me by about noon on Monday, Feb. 2, so I can make a reservation for the correct number of munchers.
Here are details about the film and a trailer.
NOW Magazine:
Still Alice follows a woman slowly losing her mind to early Alzheimer's. It's not easy to give that premise much texture, but Still Alice succeeds because the script focuses less on Alice's (Julianne Moore) relationships with family, including her husband (Alec Baldwin), and more on the ingenious strategies she uses to keep the ravages of her disease at bay. Moore gives a powerful performance (no surprise there), Baldwin's sensitive turn goes against type, and Kristen Stewart, as one of Alice's kids, proves she can show a pulse if given the chance. The film does have a predictable trajectory - how could it not? - but it's certainly not movie-of-the-week fare.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrXrZ5iiR0o
We'll be seeing Still Alice on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at the Varsity Cinema (Bay & Bloor) for the 12:45 screening, meeting about 20 minutes earlier near the box office, as always. My regrets to those whose Life classes clash with this timing, but choosing the later time of 3:45 would meaning going to a restaurant afterward at dinner time, when we would be expected to order full meals, which is not what all of us want to do. Make sense?
Speaking of eating, we'll go to the Bloor Street Diner, so please email me by about noon on Monday, Feb. 2, so I can make a reservation for the correct number of munchers.
Here are details about the film and a trailer.
NOW Magazine:
- Rating: PG
- Duration: 101 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Directed by: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
- Written by: Richard Glatzer,Wash Westmoreland
- Cast: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish, Erin Darke, Victoria Cartagena, Shane McRae, Stephen Kunken,
Still Alice follows a woman slowly losing her mind to early Alzheimer's. It's not easy to give that premise much texture, but Still Alice succeeds because the script focuses less on Alice's (Julianne Moore) relationships with family, including her husband (Alec Baldwin), and more on the ingenious strategies she uses to keep the ravages of her disease at bay. Moore gives a powerful performance (no surprise there), Baldwin's sensitive turn goes against type, and Kristen Stewart, as one of Alice's kids, proves she can show a pulse if given the chance. The film does have a predictable trajectory - how could it not? - but it's certainly not movie-of-the-week fare.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrXrZ5iiR0o
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