Exultant in both its artifice and its cruel honesty, it's a movie Sirk would make today - and, as such, it's quite brilliant.
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Far From Heaven (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 181
Fresh: 165
Rotten:16
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Consensus: An exquisitely designed and performed melodrama, Far From Heaven earns its viewers' tears with sincerity and intelligence.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The model marriage of Frank (Dennis Quaid) and Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) in 1950s Hartford is depicted in television ads, and a magazine features photographs of Cathy as a model homemaker and citizen. Yet, behind the curtains of... [More]
Starring: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson
Director: Todd Haynes
Reviews for Far From Heaven
Top Critic 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
04/02/03
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.
03/30/03
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03/08/03
Beautifully acted, sumptuously photographed melodrama from director Todd Haynes -- if Julianne Moore doesn't win the Best Actress Oscar there is, officially, no justice.
03/08/03
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.
02/18/03
Top Critic Nothing short of genius, a film of near flawless perfection that addresses its themes with an unspoken subtlety and features revelatory, heart-stopping performances.
01/23/03
Top Critic An obsessive triumph of design and tribute, beautifully acted ... but this stuff was somehow more fun in the '50s.
02/03/08
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.
12/06/05
The best reason to see Far from Heaven is to watch Julianne Moore give one of her finest performances.
12/06/04
An ignorant, false, bigoted, boring, pretentious film that could have been made by Eisenstein in the Kremlin under Joseph Stalin in 1938.
10/07/04
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.
06/23/04
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.
06/07/04
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July 18, 2007:
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Celebrated director Todd Haynes has taken on a rather ... experimental project this time around. He'll have seven different actors playing different "aspects" of songwriter Bob... More...
May 08, 2003:
As the rebel with a cause, Julianne Moore incomparably embodies an exemplary housewife who nearly disintegrates as the values she once treasured become farcical, empty tenets that restrict her happiness instead of safeguarding it. 
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