Average Rating: 8.1/10
Reviews Counted: 190
Fresh: 169 | Rotten: 21
An exquisitely designed and performed melodrama, Far From Heaven earns its viewers' tears with sincerity and intelligence.
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 2
An exquisitely designed and performed melodrama, Far From Heaven earns its viewers' tears with sincerity and intelligence.
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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, Cathy and Frank have a beautiful home and two happy, healthy children, while Frank pursues a successful career in sales and Cathy cares for the home. But Cathy has begun to sense something isn't quite
Apr 1, 2003 Wide
Apr 1, 2003
$15.8M
USA Films
All Critics (191) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (172) | Rotten (21) | DVD (22)
An accomplished marriage of elaborate style and content.
Achieves the same sentimentality as the Sirk films, and in much the same way.
Though less obviously a tour de force than many flashier recent art films, such as Alexander Sokurov's one-take feature Russian Ark, it's no less impressive as a technical achievement.
The film oozes craft.
Well worth seeing for its visual approximation of the Douglas Sirk-Ross Hunter 'women's pictures' of the 50's.
Well-written, nicely acted and beautifully shot and scored, the film works on several levels, openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull.
Sensitive, mature melodrama about sexuality in the 1950s.
One of the most beautiful looking and surprising films of the year.
It's evident that the movie is in love with itself.
One of those films that hits just about every of its intended notes right that descriptions seem moot.
One of most experimental and inebriating films of the year.
An obsessive triumph of design and tribute, beautifully acted ... but this stuff was somehow more fun in the '50s.
Censorship dictated the Hollywood product of the time, reflecting only the most idealized notion of U.S. society, with all sorts of skeletons shoved decisively into their closets.
This is easily Oscar caliber work and absolutely Ms. Moore's best to date.
Exultant in both its artifice and its cruel honesty, it's a movie Sirk would make today - and, as such, it's quite brilliant.
Moore is simply...wonderful.
The film confronts the eraâ(TM)s intolerance with regard to gender and race relations, but it should be noted that Haynes films without a trace of irony. The actors offer similarly genuine performances.
The best reason to see Far from Heaven is to watch Julianne Moore give one of her finest performances.
An ignorant, false, bigoted, boring, pretentious film that could have been made by Eisenstein in the Kremlin under Joseph Stalin in 1938.
Boldly goes where no 50's melodrama has gone before.
It's a rare thing when a movie makes you react emotionally to the repressive taboos of a past decade while...provoking you to reconsider the attitudes of present society.
A recriação do estilo de Douglas Sirk é interessante, mas soa como mero artifício de Haynes. Já a subtrama envolvendo Quaid (e a bela atuação deste) engrandecem o filme.
An arid, faux-antique melodrama done in the style of 1950s director Douglas Sirk....Lacks a heart, or at least one with a measurable pulse.
It is refreshing to see that there are still some people working in Hollywood who focus as much on style as on content.
21/08/2010 (TELEVISION)I had nothing better to do and happened to catch this on TV. Good thing I did, I really got soaked into it and began to be concerned while the story continued to unleash the darkness.It's around the 1950's, so the whole interracial thing is a "BIG NO NO" along with homosexuality. A story that
August 21, 2010Super Reviewer
Far From Heaven is a beautiful and fascinating story of Julian Morre as a 50s 'perfect world' suburban housewife watching her marriage fall apart and falling in love with her gardener. This film captures the mood and style of the 50's era, conservative, charming, niaive and deeply divided. A film that will remain a
April 20, 2006Super Reviewer
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