Dans les années 50, une femme mariée du Connecticut fait face à une crise maritale et à la montée des tensions raciales dans le monde extérieur.Dans les années 50, une femme mariée du Connecticut fait face à une crise maritale et à la montée des tensions raciales dans le monde extérieur.Dans les années 50, une femme mariée du Connecticut fait face à une crise maritale et à la montée des tensions raciales dans le monde extérieur.
- Nommé pour 4 oscars
- 102 victoires et 96 nominations au total
- Sarah Deagan
- (as Jordan Puryear)
- Billy Hutchinson
- (as Kyle Smyth)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesCinematographer 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.
- GaffesThe typewriter around the corner from Frank Whitaker's office is a late-model Selectric (circa 1971 at the earliest).
- Citations
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.
- Générique farfeluThe first end credit reads "for Bompi"
- ConnexionsFeatured 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
- 13 juill. 2003
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Détails
Box-office
- Budget
- 13 500 000 $ US (estimation)
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 15 901 849 $ US
- Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 211 279 $ US
- 10 nov. 2002
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 29 027 914 $ US
- Durée1 heure 47 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1