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Friday 4 June
21.00
Far From Heaven
(Todd Haynes, USA 2002, 106’)
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Todd Haynes
Far from Heaven 2002
Courtesy Focus Features
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Featuring sterling performances by Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid, Far from Heaven is a cunningly precise pastiche of 1950s melodramas like those made by Douglas Sirk – if, that is, Universal Studios had been prepared to release a movie bearing on homosexuality, interracial romance, and the civil rights movement. Right from the start, we have the vertiginous impression of being dropped back into a familiar past all the more welcoming for having never quite existed in the first place.
As Haynes explains, the film is built out of ‘the language of '50s cinema, not the '50s.' 'Through an unexpected alchemy, Far from Heaven ends up becoming the object it contemplates, and its path of conscious artifice leads toward a tragic sense of reality.' – Geoffrey O’Brien.
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
£3.50 (£2 concessions), booking recommended
Todd Haynes will also be in conversation with Richard Dyer before the screening.
(Separate admission required.)
Double Indemnity season
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