Far from Heaven

film by Haynes [2002]

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  • discussed in biography
    • Todd Haynes
      In 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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  • score by Bernstein
    • Elmer Bernstein
      In 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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  • use of colour
    • Doctor Zhivago
      In film: 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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