Directed by Todd Haynes • 1995 • United States
Starring Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley
Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, SAFE functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you cannot see. This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a “Village Voice” poll of more than fifty critics.
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Psycho
Directed by Gus Van Sant • 1998 • United States
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Nine Months
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