Your Oscar Role: Julianne Moore and “Still Alice”: vinegar in your head – tagesspiegel

08:30 clock Daniela Sannwald

Til Schweiger has been associated with “Honey in the head,” the theme Alzheimer rather gross public appeal to the cinema. “Still Alice” – with the newly crowned Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore – this disease unequal world staged subtle.

A few surprises, there were at the recent Academy Awards, but the price was not among them: Julianne Moore, lead actress of the Alzheimer’s drama “Still Alice – My Life Without Yesterday” was not only the bookies a safe bet. As well as the equally excellent as the main actor Eddie Redmayne she made, subtle and haunting, a disease-related process of decay felt, and such efforts rewarded the Academy is well known, like.

While Redmayne play as diseased ALS Stephen Hawking especially physical changes had, Moore was a suffering from Alzheimer’s disease professor who fights against the slow degradation of mental faculties

Most Alzheimer’s patients are over 65 years old. in this country they represent two-thirds of the 1.5 million people with dementia. About ten percent of them are a lot younger; they suffer from a hereditary form of the disease early. Consequently, the Born in 1960, Julianne Moore appeared as the ideal candidate for the role of the researcher at the height of her career.

A milieu, not provided in the disease is

Alice has just been her 50th birthday celebrated. She and her husband John (Alec Baldwin) are successful academics with international sphere; her three adult children Lydia (Kristen Stewart), Anna (Kate Bosworth) and Tom (Hunter Parrish) are well advised in different ways. Alice and John live in New York, have a summer home in the Hamptons; they belong to the cultural bourgeoisie and the privileges of their class are well aware.

The description of the environment is not provided in the disease, at least at this time, the filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland lot of care used – just on the dialog boxes that are looking for the two rational living from thinking, writing and forming people to cope with that for one of them it will soon no longer be possible. In a beautiful scene Alice meets her neurologist with slight condescension, as if it were a special concession of her to undergo the test. Following the announcement of the diagnosis, the couple is waiting at the elevator, and John furiously bangs the button, instead of articulating his tension.

It was only just a blackout, quick-witted laminated

Almost imperceptibly the spiritual degradation begins with Alice: a blackout during a lecture, she clad witted, a forgotten evening invitation, misplaced items, short periods of disorientation. Shortly after, life goes back to normal; already germinates the false hope that her condition will improve but still. Subjective camera settings but show the world from Alice’s point of view: blurry, flat and thrown out of proportion, so that it can not recognize the right way. Also, the film takes the changing mental states of the heroine and their environment in mind: denial, self-pity, courage, despair, helplessness, powerlessness, shame and defiance

“Still Alice” is a film of quiet tones. a plea for the integration of sufferers in the family and society and at the same time against the performance and fitness cult. The film in no way denies the effort with which an accepting approach is connected with the sick for everyone involved. Perhaps this particular sensitivity is due to the fact that Richard Glatzer ill during the preparation period of the nerve disease ALS and as one of the two directors sitting on the set already in a wheelchair.

A Plea for the integration of sufferers in the family is also Til Schweiger’s “Honey in the head”, which already reached almost six million viewers since Christmas. Against the background of “Still Alice” is clear how comparatively coarse one can approach a similar clinical picture. Dieter Hallervorden plays the 72-year-old Amandus, who moved to his wife’s death to the family of his son: father Niko (Schweiger), mother Sarah (Jeanette Hain) and the eleven year old daughter Tilda (Emma Schweiger). Since both parents work, especially the child to the adorable confused elderly care – and finds the disease initially not as bad as the adults

Schweiger stock response neat, when it comes to the impact of dementia. – with boorish jokes, especially at the expense of Tildas constantly hysterical mother, bawdy slapstick and raised eyebrows, open mouths and plinkernden page views. Also, “Honey in the head” is a bourgeois idyll in which it is not so much to intellectual than to monetary capital – and the disaster is that the grandpa destroyed continuously and carefully maintained expensive items. Therein lies entirely anarchist Fury and fun granddaughter it may also be a rebellion against the copper boiler-world of the rich eco-bourgeois lie.

Also, there are a few touching moments silent sorrow in the otherwise burlesque game of Dieter Hallervorden; but these scenes disappear between rudeness and obscenities, where Schweiger believes he must come to terms with a amüsierwütigen audience. The success seems to justify his strategy. Let’s see how “Still Alice” hits at the box office. An awful lot to laugh, it does not exist, but at least opened the film hoping for a bit of luck – for ill or well

“Still Alice runs in 15 cinemas in Berlin. “Honey in the head” can still be seen in 26 cinemas.