Exultant in both its artifice and its cruel honesty, it's a movie Sirk would make today - and, as such, it's quite brilliant.
Far From Heaven (2002)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, James Rebhorn
Screenwriter: Todd Haynes
Producer: Jody Patton, Christine Vachon
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
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Whether you see this kind of thing as soap opera, or sophisticated satire, its appearance is so stiffly earnest that after a while the style becomes a given, and the content develops surprising power. We simply forget about the oddness, and become struck
This would have been the best 'women's picture' ever made in '50s Hollywood - if anyone had been courageous enough to make it then. It's gorgeous to behold, the actors are wonderful, and Haynes' precise vision and control never waver.
Beautifully acted, sumptuously photographed melodrama from director Todd Haynes -- if Julianne Moore doesn't win the Best Actress Oscar there is, officially, no justice.
A throwback to 1950s melodrama, Todd Haynes' involving picture may sit uneasy on the palates of modern audiences, but it's a taste worth acquiring.
Nothing short of genius, a film of near flawless perfection that addresses its themes with an unspoken subtlety and features revelatory, heart-stopping performances.
An obsessive triumph of design and tribute, beautifully acted ... but this stuff was somehow more fun in the '50s.
The film confronts the era’s intolerance with regard to gender and race relations, but it should be noted that Haynes films without a trace of irony. The actors offer similarly genuine performances.
The best reason to see Far from Heaven is to watch Julianne Moore give one of her finest performances.
An ignorant, false, bigoted, boring, pretentious film that could have been made by Eisenstein in the Kremlin under Joseph Stalin in 1938.
It's a rare thing when a movie makes you react emotionally to the repressive taboos of a past decade while...provoking you to reconsider the attitudes of present society.
A recriação do estilo de Douglas Sirk é interessante, mas soa como mero artifício de Haynes. Já a subtrama envolvendo Quaid (e a bela atuação deste) engrandecem o filme.
An arid, faux-antique melodrama done in the style of 1950s director Douglas Sirk....Lacks a heart, or at least one with a measurable pulse.
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