![]() ![]() Glatzer and Westmoreland don’t need to stack the emotional deck on Alice’s behalf or wring tears from the irony of a brilliant linguist’s cognitive decline. ![]() The wisdom lent by this experience- of being a couple struggling with degenerative illness while collaborating on a film about that very subject-may be what gives Still Alice its quiet, unmelodramatic directness. During the filming, Glatzer’s condition deteriorated to the point of needing to communicate through a text-to-speech iPad app. The two directors, who also co-wrote the script, are married, and one of them, Richard Glatzer, was diagnosed with ALS shortly before he and husband Wash Westmoreland decided to adapt Genova’s novel-in fact, it was the shock of that diagnosis that prompted them to take on the material. ![]() I didn’t yet know while watching it that the production history of Still Alice uncannily mirrors the film’s themes and story. ![]()
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