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Far from Heaven (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 1, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert & Patricia Clarkson | |
Performer: | James Rebhorn, Celia Weston, Jordan Puryear, Lindsay Andretta, Ryan Ward & Matt Malloy | |
Directed by | Todd Haynes | |
Edited by | James Lyons | |
Screenwriting by | Todd Haynes | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Produced by | Jody Patton & Christine Vachon | |
Director of Photography: | Edward Lachman | |
Executive Production by | Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Eric Robison, Pamela Koffler & John Sloss |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A gorgeously overheated imitation of life...
Rolling Stone
We are left wondering why, in any case, an imitation Sirk was needed, what appetite or interest it might fill. Even with its latter-day (modified) frankness, Far From Heaven is only thin glamour that lacks a tacit wry base.
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The New Republic
...Haynes gets the look and feel right...FAR FROM HEAVEN also has emotional force...
USA Today
Far From Heaven should create a wider audience for Haynes, long considered one of America's leading independent directors.
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Willamette Week
Quaid makes a decent man's anguish richly palpable. Moore makes us feel hidden frenzy with a cool and ultimately heartbreaking grace.
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TIME Magazine
...It's a bold experiment....[With a] terrific look and perfectly pitched performances...
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 4/5 --
Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid are outstanding as Cathy and Frank Whitaker, a perfect couple with a decidedly imperfect love life.
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Times (UK)
Product Description:
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 their dream home, Cathy and Frank hide scandalous secrets. Frank has been masquerading his homosexuality and is seeing a doctor for a heterosexual conversion. Meanwhile, Cathy finds solace in her gardener, Raymond (Dennis Haysbert), a black man about whom Cathy must conceal her growing feelings, since simply being seen with him is cause for scandal.
Filmmaker Douglas Sirk employed the trappings of the melodrama to satirize and criticize narrow minds in the 1950s status quo with films such as ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. Todd Haynes (SAFE) uses Sirk's highly stylized universe to critique society half a century later in FAR FROM HEAVEN. The film uses thematic elements of Sirk's such as isolating characters through windows and vivid, symbolic colors and flowers. It also applies Sirkian plot devices such as gossiping neighbors and demonizing television. Attacking prejudice, Haynes' methods are particularly effective as he uses an antiquated style of filmmaking to shed light on societal problems that are pervasive even in the 21st Century.
Filmmaker Douglas Sirk employed the trappings of the melodrama to satirize and criticize narrow minds in the 1950s status quo with films such as ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. Todd Haynes (SAFE) uses Sirk's highly stylized universe to critique society half a century later in FAR FROM HEAVEN. The film uses thematic elements of Sirk's such as isolating characters through windows and vivid, symbolic colors and flowers. It also applies Sirkian plot devices such as gossiping neighbors and demonizing television. Attacking prejudice, Haynes' methods are particularly effective as he uses an antiquated style of filmmaking to shed light on societal problems that are pervasive even in the 21st Century.
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