Far From Heaven
107 minutes,
USA (2002), PG
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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