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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 414708" data-attributes="member: 57984">Oddly, I had never really seen FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002) although I'd certainly heard about it and always meant to watch it. There's been so much Douglas Sirkian conversation about the look and style of the film, and one can certainly understand why. A typically prim, Connecticut post-war housewife (Julianne Moore) eventually learns her husband (Dennis Quaid) needs inversion conversion, leading to her attraction to her African-American gardener (Dennis Haysbert) during the fall of 1957.  It gets the overall vibe of the late-'50s about as right as any movie could be expected to do in the twenty-first century -- the clothes, the production design, the gestures and body language (although Quaid's hair is a bit too long for the period)... Cinema sure couldn't pull off this kind of detail in the '70s or the '80s (although that improved dramatically by the '90s)... The camerawork, too, is very evocative.Shockingly few motion pictures have ever made much of an attempt to vividly capture the season of autumn, but this one makes a decent stab at it. There is usually something so effectively nostalgic about fall and winter when it's used in a movie, especially a period movie -- which is strange, since fall and winter happen pretty much every year. But it's particularly resonant when used specifically to summon the late-'50s, for some reason (the aspirations of idealized Americana of that decade?). The cozy little lies.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7f/4f/c0/7f4fc02ec38c9dfd20a9b49615fb9139.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 819px" /></blockquote>

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