Far From Heaven (DVD) Reviews

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 - ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...