Rotten
The actors move about this elaborate movie museum in a modified dream state, as if living in the present while rooted in the past. But the strategy doesn't work. It's an imitation of lifelessness.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Far from Heaven
What imprisons desires of the heart?
2002 · 1h 47m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Todd Haynes
Overview
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
Director and cast
- Todd Haynes Director
- Julianne Moore as Cathy Whitaker
- Dennis Quaid as Frank Whitaker
- Dennis Haysbert as Raymond Deagan
- Patricia Clarkson as Eleanor Fine
- Viola Davis as Sybil
- James Rebhorn as Dr. Bowman
- Michael Gaston as Stan Fine
- Bette Henritze as Mrs. Leacock
- Celia Weston as Mona Lauder
- June Squibb Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh
With tact and care, the movie digs into all the subjects that lay concealed below the surface when Max Ophuls and Douglas Sirk were filming their own melodramas in the nineteen-fifties.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
Quaid makes a decent man's anguish richly palpable. Moore makes us feel hidden frenzy with a cool and ultimately heartbreaking grace.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Fresh
Haynes doesn't simply take a Norman Rockwell setting and release the hounds, either. He deals with these issues directly, but gently, as if his and Sirk's audiences were the same.
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
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