In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
- Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 102 wins & 96 nominations total
- Sarah Deagan
- (as Jordan Puryear)
- Billy Hutchinson
- (as Kyle Smyth)
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- TriviaCinematographer Edward Lachman created the 1950s "look" by using the same type of lighting equipment (incandescent), the same lighting techniques, and the same type of lens filters when shooting this film, as would have been used on a 1950s era melodrama.
- GoofsThe typewriter around the corner from Frank Whitaker's office is a late-model Selectric (circa 1971 at the earliest).
- Quotes
Cathy Whitaker: That was the day I stopped believing in the wild ardor of things. Perhaps in love, as well. That kind of love. The love in books and films. The love that tells us to abandon our lives and plans, all for one brief touch of Venus. So often we fail at that kind of love. The world just seems too fragile a place for it. And of every other kind, life remains full. Perhaps it's just we who are too fragile.
- Crazy creditsThe first end credit reads "for Bompi"
- ConnectionsFeatured in Anatomy of a Scene: Far from Heaven (2002)
In Julianne Moore he finds the perfect heroine. Her performance is so skilled that we don't see her at work. Though nominated, Ms. Moore was sadly overlooked at the 2003 Oscars. Apparently no one could see past Nicole Kidman's prosthetic nose in THE HOURS. (When a beautiful actress plays "ugly" she wins an award. Ms. Kidman's performance in THE HOURS is one of her best in that deeply moving film, but it hardly matches the subtlety and difficulty of Ms. Moore's work in FAR FROM HEAVEN.) With such breathtaking ease that we forget she is acting, Ms. Moore scales the grand challenge of using melodramatic dialogue that verges deliberately on camp to reveal the tenderness and desire of the naive 50's housewife who is the center of FAR FROM HEAVEN. (Watch her face in an early scene where she and the excellent Patricia Clarkson talk with their girlfriends about their respective marriages.)
Credit must be given to Haynes as well, who asks his cast to play it straight. Ms. Moore, who consistently achieves beauty and depth with each performance, brings this tender film to life. She has a fine counterpart in the handsome and Dennis Quaid who has not had such a plumb role since his early days.
Though every film should stand on its own, you should check out the milieu that Todd Haynes is working in the oeuvre of Douglas Sirk being the main source but you can also check out earlier films like DARK VICTORY and other domestic dramas.
- tommyrockt
- Jul 12, 2003
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- Also known as
- Lejos del cielo
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- Budget
- $13,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $15,901,849
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $211,279
- Nov 10, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $29,027,914
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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