"Far From Heaven"

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Writer/director Todd Haynes has fashioed a 1950's style melodrama, in which a supposedly happily married couple is torn apart by the husband's gayness and the wife's attraction to another man, and a black man at that. Fifties era morals are evident but not satirized. The wife is played by Julianne Moore and the husband by Dennis Quaid. The production design features autumnal stop red and go green colors, punctuated by robin's egg blue. Everything is done very ungraphically in the fifties manner, and is so successful that the one four letter word (i think) uttered by Quaid is a shocker. This one truly captures the look and feel of such fifties pictures as "All The heaven Allows" and "Peyton Place". I enjoyed it.

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Topic - "Far From Heaven" - rico 07:39:40 03/27/05 (1)

Re: "Far From Heaven" - jamesgarvin 08:08:08 03/30/05 (0)

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