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Mood:
- GloomySincereStylizedEmotionalSexualTense
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Plot:
- Crumbling MarriageFriendshipInterracial RelationsSuburban LifeDishonestyGenderLove and RomanceMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceMelodramaPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- MiamiSmall TownSuburbs
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- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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- Mild Violent ContentSexual Content
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Far From Heaven, 2002
English
USA, France
Profile of Far From Heaven
Far From Heaven can be described as gloomy, stylized, and sincere. The plot revolves around suburban life, interracial relations, and a crumbling marriage. The main genres are drama, romance, and period. In terms of style, Far From Heaven is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Far From Heaven is set, at least in part, in the suburbs and in a small town. It is located in Miami. It takes place in the 1950s. Far From Heaven has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves mild violent content and sexual content.
Summary of Far From Heaven
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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, France |
| Release date: | 22 September 2002 |
| Runtime: | 107 min |
Cast and Crew
as Cathy Whitaker
as Frank Whitaker
as Raymond Deagan
as Eleanor Fine
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- by: Andrew O'Hehir
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- by: Jim T
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