“The Artist’s Wife” (*1/2 out of four) was a rambling and ineffectual melodrama about the wife (Lena Olin) of a renowned artist (Bruce Dern) whose lives are thrown into disarray when he begins showing sudden and escalating signs of Altzheimer’s disease and may not be able to complete his paintings for his final show which the family is dependent on. Self-indulgent and self-important story never connects emotionally, despite the two talented stars. “Still Alice” was a far more passionate and moving look at the same subject matter.