Would making a film on the disease be the right bet to be devoted to the Oscars. During the 87th ceremony, Alzheimer’s and Charcot’s diseases were distinguished.
Dallas Buyers Club in 2014, A Wonderful History of Time and Still Alice last night, these three Oscar-winning films all have one thing in common. They highlight the journey of a man / or a woman hit hard by the disease during his life.
Stephen Hawking’s life biopic rewarded
Oscar winner for Best Actor last night, 33-year-old Briton Eddie Redmayne received the award for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in “A Wonderful History of Time”. This film narrates the first part of the life of the theoretical physicist, his meeting with his first wife, Jane, his first discoveries, his doctorate and his successes in cosmological physics.
He also goes back extensively on his diagnosis in 1963 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons but sparing cognitive functions.
Called in the French-speaking world “Charcot’s disease”, it affects 8,000 patients in France. With 3 years of survival on average, this icon of science therefore remains an enigma for many doctors as to its exceptional survival.
Early Alzheimer’s in the spotlight
Another Oscar, another story of a sickness, for Julianne Moore Oscar winner as best actress for the American film “Still Alice”. The American-British actress plays the role of Alice Howland, renowned linguistics teacher, married, happy and mother of three grown children. A perfect life? Not quite, since barely 50 years old, this brilliant woman begins to forget her words and doctors diagnose her with the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease. As a result, the bonds between Alice and her family are strained …
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Sex, drugs, rodeo and AIDS
Finally, no one has forgotten “Dallas Buyers Club” awarded several times last year at the 86th Academy Awards. With the award for best actor for Matthew McConaughey who, in the United States of the 80s, plays a 35-year-old cowboy, Ron Woodroof. His life: sex, drugs and rodeo. Everything changes when he is diagnosed with HIV and has 30 days to live.
Revolted by the powerlessness of the medical profession, he resorts to unofficial alternative treatments. Over time, he brought together other sick people in search of recovery: the Dallas Buyers Club was born. But his success gets in the way, Ron must engage in a battle against the laboratories and the federal authorities. It is his fight for a new cause… and for his own life that the film recounts.
Hospital practitioners in the spotlight of Caesar 2015
And on this theme of disease in the cinema, France is not left out. At the last Césars ceremony, she dedicated as best foreign film “Mommy”, which traces the chaotic life of a mother and her impulsive and violent son. A 15 year old teenager who combines hyperactivity and conduct disorder. Quebec director Xavier Dolan aptly portrays their suffering.
The film “Hippocrates” on the life of Benjamin, 23, a medical intern, received, for its part, the César, 2015 for best actor in a supporting role for Reda Kateb. He plays the role of an Algerian doctor forced to accept a post in France below his qualification.
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