Alice in chains
In Still Alice, a linguistics professor starts losing her grasp of language, bearing and memory. Alice (Julianne Moore) is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, and for a person whose lifelong devotion is to words and what words can do, the disease is an existential coup. This tender, warmly-lit and empathetic film is billed as a family drama. It’s also a horror story, one in which the demon…