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Saturday 12 June
19.00
SAFE
(Todd Haynes, USA 1995, 119’)
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Todd Haynes
Safe 1995
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Often cited as ‘the best film of the ‘90s,’ SAFE is a stylish, revisionist take on the paranoia thriller. Julianne Moore plays Carol White, a suburban Southern California housewife who suddenly falls victim to an inexplicable, ‘environmental’ illness. Failing to find any medical explanation for her maladies, Carol withdraws to a New Age retreat for sufferers of ‘twentieth-century disease,’ where the community's guru champions a dubious regimen of diet, climate control, introspection, and self-love. The film explores the shifting nature of our built environments and the vulnerabilities of our bodies, depicting a claustrophobic world in which invisible risks conspire with the collapse of social space.
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
£3.50 (£2 concessions), booking recommended
Double Indemnity season
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