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Far from Heaven

2002

Todd Haynes

Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, James Rebhorn ...

7.0

9,578

Drama It is the autumn of 1957. The Whitakers, the very picture of a suburban family, make their home in Hartford, Connecticut. Their daily existence is characterized by carefully observed family etiquette, social events, and an overall desire to keep up with the Joneses. Cathy is the homemaker, wife and mother. Frank is the breadwinner, husband and father. They have two pre-teen children, a boy and a girl. A maid and a gardener complete the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Far from Heaven¡' is like the best and bravest movie of 1957 (...) Because the film deliberately lacks irony, it has a genuine dramatic impact (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[Haynes] reinvents the genre, letting the passions that lay buried in Sirk’s films explode onscreen (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		David Rooney Variety	"An accomplished marriage of style and content (...) Haynes deftly employs the genre's Hollywood artificiality to examine racism, homosexuality and the sacrifices of women in a middle-class society"
		Manohla Dargis Los Angeles Times	"The film's three leads are extraordinary, but what Moore does with her role is so beyond the parameters of what we call great acting that it nearly defies categorization."
		Angie Errigo Empire	"This would have been the best 'women's picture' ever made in '50s Hollywood if anyone had been courageous enough to make it then (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An incredible cinematic séance or even a secular High Mass, at which the real presence of the past is quite unexpectedly summoned up and made to live, spectrally, all about you. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"A tremendous accomplishment (...) 'Far From Heaven' reveals a whole world suffering beneath Technicolor skies."

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