Far From Heaven
Filmfest 2012
(Dem Himmel so fern)
USA 2002
Original version with German subtitles
(Original: English)
Director: Todd Haynes
Section: Retrospective - Todd Haynes
A loose remake of Douglas Sirk's 1955 Jane Wyman / Rock Hudson tearjerker ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, and every element of the production (including the Oscar-nominated cinematography and score) brilliantly recreates the look and feel of Sirks stylised, artifical world. In lesser hands, this could easily have resulted in a movie-bores sterile exercise in ironic, kitschy camp but Haynes somehow delivers a thoroughly absorbing and entertaining but absolutely dead-serious analysis of issues that remain all too pressing five decades on.
Neil Young, www.jigsawlounge.co.uk, 23 March 2004
Cast: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Viola Davis
Credits
Screenplay: Todd Haynes
Director of Photography: Edward Lachman
Film Editor: James Lyons
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Production Designer: Mark Friedberg
Costume Design: Sandy Powell
Sound: Kelley Baker
Producer: Christine Vachon
Co-Producer: Jody Patton, Declan Baldwin, Bradford Simpson
Production Company: Focus Features International
Distributor: Concorde Filmverleih GmbH
Director: Todd Haynes
