Far from Heaven

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Far from Heaven

film by Haynes [2002]

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- Todd Haynes
  Far from Heaven, I’m Not There, and Mildred Pierce
  In Far from Heaven (2002), Haynes re-created the style of a Douglas Sirk melodrama to tell the tale of a seemingly perfect married couple in 1950s suburbia whose relationship troubles surface when the wife (Moore) discovers that her husband (Dennis Quaid) has been having homosexual urges.…
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  In Far from Heaven (2002), Haynes re-created the style of a Douglas Sirk melodrama to tell the tale of a seemingly perfect married couple in 1950s suburbia whose relationship troubles surface when the wife (Moore) discovers that her husband (Dennis Quaid) has been having homosexual urges.…
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- Elmer Bernstein
  >Far from Heaven (2002)—he won only once, for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), considered one of his lesser efforts.
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  >Far from Heaven (2002)—he won only once, for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), considered one of his lesser efforts.
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  Colour and black and white
  …American director Todd Haynes’s film Far from Heaven (2002). Both Fassbinder and Haynes were inspired by the Technicolor movies of Douglas Sirk. The Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni claimed to have studied colour for years before venturing to make his first colour film, Il deserto rosso (1964; The Red Desert). In…
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  …American director Todd Haynes’s film Far from Heaven (2002). Both Fassbinder and Haynes were inspired by the Technicolor movies of Douglas Sirk. The Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni claimed to have studied colour for years before venturing to make his first colour film, Il deserto rosso (1964; The Red Desert). In…
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