DramaRomance

Far from Heaven

2003
★ 7.3 / 10
In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
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Reviews
★★★★★
Todd Haynes is an acquired taste but nobody can deny his gifted approach to filmmaking. Far from heaven is an interesting film starring Julianne Moore and with a look that evokes the films of the 50s. Everything about Far from Heaven playfully yet reverently a...
★★★★★
I'm telling you, everybody's just falling in love with all the wrong people in this flick, but it's extremely captivating and the characters are perfectly engaging. I'm a bit shocked at some of your reviews here because I don't think many of you know much abou...
★★★★★
This movie is about two main questions in American society in the fifties of last century: the homosexual question and the interracial love question. Mrs. Whitaker is the "perfect" housewife leading a "perfect" home and marital life in a small town in Connecti...
★★★★★
While certainly this film is about race and sexual preference, I think its observations are actually much more universal. What it is about - and so many of the movies it references are also about - is how social structures work hard to prevent you from steppin...
★★★★★
`Far From Heaven' is a total artistic triumph for writer/director Todd Haynes, who has, among other things, provided the most brilliant examination of the codes and values of the 1950's that I have ever seen in a film. His work here turns out to be a uniquely...
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