Far from Heaven

Maverick director Todd Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) and her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), are a seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome suburban neighborhood in Hartford, CT, in 1957, ...more

Douglas Sirk became a cineaste darling for making 1950s weepies that were as passionate as they were ironic, reveling in gleaming surfaces and big emotions while telegraphing their hollow core. Todd Haynes's exquisite Far from Heaven captures the Sirk mood to perfection from the moment the first pristine images hit the screen. A reinterpretation of All That Heaven Allows (1955), with a dash of Imitation of Life (1959), Far from Heaven gets every detail right, from the well-appointed, ...more