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Far From Heaven 107 minutes, USA (2002), PG
(4.0)
Rating: 4.0 Stars
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Average user rating (4.2 / 16 votes)
Julianne Moore and Dennis Haysbert in Far From Heaven

Safe writer-director Todd Haynes creates a technicolour world of emotional tumult with his first film since the underrated Velvet Goldmine. A re-imagined 50s melodrama, played sincerely

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Far From Heaven: Don't be duped by appearances. At first glance, the sheer lustre of Todd Haynes' ravishing fourth feature suggests that he's simply pastiching in order to subvert Douglas Sirk's 50s melodramas, those so-called 'women's pictures' such as All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Imitation Of Life (1959)...
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