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Far From Heaven (DVD)

 
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 2002 / Director: Todd Haynes / Actors: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid ... / DVD ... more
Far From Heaven (DVD) ... released 20 October, 2003 at Entertainment in Video / Features of the DVD: PAL / Far from Heaven is a uniquely beautiful film from one of the smartest and most idiosyncratic of contemporary directors, Todd Haynes (Safe and Velvet Goldmine). It takes the lush 1950s visual style of so-called women's pictures (particularly those of Douglas Sirk, director of Imitation of Life and Magnificent Obsession) to tell a story that mixes both sexual and racial prejudice. Julianne Moore, portraying an amazing fusion of vulnerability and will power, plays a housewife whose husband (Dennis Quaid) has a secret gay life. When she finds solace in the company of a black gardener (Dennis Haysbert), rumours and peer pressure destroy any chance she has at happiness. It's astonishing how a movie with such a stylised veneer can be so emotionally compelling; the cast and filmmakers have such an impeccable command of the look and feel of the genre that every moment is simultaneously artificial and deeply felt. Far from Heaven is ingenious and completely engrossing. --Bret Fetzer

Newest Review: ... this writer/director. What I mean by this, is that things have been carefully scripted in an attempt to make us believe that ... more

 ... this movie was actually filmed in the 1950's. For instance, the dialogue has been crafted so that you'll never hear the type of words that would have been banned for movie audiences back then. Haynes even goes so far as to have the son David use a word like "shucks" only to be immediately admonished by his mother for using "that kind of language". While this has been done quite well for the most part, I truly doubt that in the 1950's they would have filmed a conversation of a group of women discu...more

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TheChocolateLady
Crowned Review Far From Heaven (DVD): One Hell of a Film! (2623 words)
by - written on 15/03/06 (Very useful, 124 readings)
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Remember all the TV shows and movies that came out of the US in the late 1950's? Back then, there were many about "perfect" families, and even some about not-so perfect families. But for some reason, when one of those families were in the latter category, they were always portrayed as lovably funny, cutely bumbling or adorably confused - all making silly mistakes that got them into laughable situations. Showing a family with the type of real-life problems and dilemmas that couldn't be solved with a nice cup of tea or a simple withering look from a parent followed by a sincere apology from the child and then hugs all around, just wasn't done. In Todd Haynes' ...  Read the complete review

theediscerning
Crowned Review Not your kind of film (1913 words)
by - written on 02/05/03 (Very useful, 48 readings)
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Below the lovely autumnal colours of the trees surrounding her home, the incredibly well coutured and made-up figure of Cathy Whitaker lives a seemingly perfect life. Her husband Frank is high up and busy in the world of a company making and selling those new television set things (this is the 1950s, of course). Her daughter is a young dancer and has the knack of saying a perfectly decent compliment to her Mummy at the right time. And her son, well, he's just a tiny bit late in helping the home help (with her one, immaculate dress uniform) in with the shopping, but you can't have everything. Seemingly perfect, yes, but it must be said also busy. ...  Read the complete review

cswann
Crowned Review Far From Heaven (DVD): What will the neighbours think? (785 words)
by - written on 23/10/03 (Very useful, 61 readings)
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As soon as this movie begins, you know that you’re in for a quality viewing experience. Visually, for sure. It starts off in a very cinematic, beautiful way – the use of something very reminiscent of 50s Technicolor (indeed it may even use that, if it’s possible nowadays) and also the way it is filmed, instantly threw me into that “classic” cinema mode. All of which perfectly conjures up the period when “Far from Heaven” is in fact set. The scenes, fashions, and the almost melodramatic execution also play their part in these tale from the suburbs of post war Connecticut. “Far from Heaven” is a ...  Read the complete review

JonathanS
Premium Review Pretty but far from perfect. (599 words)
by - written on 15/04/03 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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Far From Heaven is a period film, but not in the usual sense. Not only is the setting of the film the 1950s in suburban America, but the very style the film is that of a 1950s melodrama of the sort often associated with Douglas Sirk. The challenge for director Todd Haynes was to make a film that remained compelling for modern audiences despite this. The film starts in autumn in Connecticut where we are introduced to Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore), the perfect suburban housewife with the perfect family of two kids (one of each) and husband Frank (Dennis Quaid). This is the 1950s and Frank is firmly in the role of breadwinner while Cathy spends her days ...  Read the complete review

maddip
Premium Review Far From Heaven (DVD): Close to Heaven (430 words)
by - written on 23/05/03 (Useful, 64 readings)
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To me, Julianne Moore was always the actress who made ginger hair and freckles beautiful. Not having ginger hair myself, but having an abundance of freckles, I loved it when her looks were praised. It could have been for this reason, then, that I never took her seriously as an actress. She was the wannabe that took the dud roles - Lila Crane in the disastrous remake of Hitchcock's Psycho, and Clarice Starling in Hannibal - a role that Jodie Foster, rightly, was loath to take up again. Far From Heaven changed all that. The only reason I went to see it, firstly, was that the Oscar race was on, and I wanted to watch all the leading actor and actresses ...  Read the complete review

 
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