Comments on: Far From Heaven (2002)

By: weefselkweekje

weefselkweekje — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Didn’t i recommend this one to you? Sorry, bout that Th poster’s great (and completely in focus as well), and it did indeed remind me of The Hours…

By: suzero

suzero — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The poster or the film reminded you of the Hours? What did you think of the film?

By: weefselkweekje

weefselkweekje — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Didn’t see the film (yet), and it was more the fact that Julianne Moore plays a 50′s housewife that reminded me of The Hours than the poster actually.

By: marisa

marisa — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I completely agree with you, I thought this film sucked. A big let-down after The Hours.

I love Julianne Moore, but that wasn’t enough for me. The plot was trying to do WAY to much. Feminism, race relations, homosexuality were all tossed in the mix but nothing really explored deeply or believably.

Actually, the race thing was annoying. Why the hell would he even be interested in her? It was so unbelievable. I feel like they tossed in every Oscar “issue” they could come up with.

As for Suzero’s question about the 1950′s speak … i think people did talk like that, but probably not all the time … but who the hell knows. I certainly wasn’t alive!

By: pip

pip — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I finally saw Far From Heaven. I thought it was enjoyable. Not great. But yeah, enjoyable.

The main problem I had with it was that the ‘relationship’ between housewife Julianne Moore and her gardener Dennis Haysbert could indeed have been believable if it had been developed. I wonder if any scenes were deleted as that lack of development made the final scene rather ridiculous whereas it could have been quite some climax.