Synopsis
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
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Cast
- Julianne MooreCathy Whitaker
- Dennis QuaidFrank Whitaker
- Dennis HaysbertRaymond Deagan
- Patricia ClarksonEleanor Fine
- Viola DavisSybil
- James RebhornDr. Bowman
- Bette HenritzeMrs. Leacock
- Michael GastonStan Fine
- Celia WestonMona Lauder
- Ryan WardDavid Whitaker
Recommandations
- 100
Boston Globe
This is a love letter from one auteur to another that doesn't feel like a term paper. Instead, Far From Heaven is an honest-to-God drama with resonance all its own. - 100
Salon
A movie for hardcore film geeks and regular folk alike, a stunning, and stunningly improbable, fusion of postmodern pastiche and old-school Hollywood melodrama. It's both a marvelous technical accomplishment and a tragic love story that sweeps you off your feet. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
Bold and brilliant. - 90
Village Voice
A supremely intelligent pastiche. - 90
Time
Ironizes without parodying an antique screen manner, then reaches out from beneath this smooth cover to grab us. - 90
Washington Post
Three sterling performances from Moore, Haysbert and Quaid, all of whom grapple with psychic pain in different, touching ways. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
Haynes took an enormous risk here, but thanks to his thoughtful script and an utterly sincere performance from Moore, what could have easily become a cold, calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
If it's ultimately a failure -- and I think it is -- it's still worth seeing, because it's the most ambitious and magnificent failure in recent memory. That, in a sense, qualifies it as a certain kind of "good movie."
