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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Far from Heaven
Directed by Todd Haynes • 2002 • United States
Starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis HaysbertAcclaimed director Todd Haynes reteamed with his SAFE star Julianne Moore for this masterpiece modeled on Douglas Sirk’s exquisite melodramas of the 1950s. Moore earned an Oscar nomination for h...
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Poison
Directed by Todd Haynes • 1991 • United States
Starring Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan NormanInspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Todd Haynes’s debut feature deftly interweaves a trio of transgressive tales—“Hero,” “Horror,” and “Homo”—that build towards a devastating climax. “Hero,” shot...
