Cinema
Loin du paradis
26 May 2023
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Suburban USA, 1950s. Cathy Whitaker is the perfect housewife, an attentive mother, and devoted wife. Her radiant smile is often splashed across the local paper. Cathy is always smiling. Even as her marriage breaks down and her friends abandon her. When her friendship with her gardener causes a scandal, she is forced to face reality behind her plastered smile.
Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven. USA / France, 2002, 107 min, DCP (original format: 35 mm), colour, original version with French sub-titles
With Julianne Moore, Dennis Haysbert and Dennis Quaid
Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival
“What I like about melodrama, is that you always end up getting emotionally involved. These films refer to social dynamics, things that are part of everyone’s experience, such as love, despair and betrayal. The viewer is drawn in. This is what I wanted to happen. […] Shooting a Fifties-style melodrama nowadays might seem strange. Yet slapping explosive subjects like racism and sexuality on the supposed innocence of the 1950s, shows just how thorny these issues still are today. Ultimately our era still has much in common with those days.” Todd Haynes, Le Journal du Dimanche, 9 March 2003
Julianne Moore received the Volpi Cup and Ed Lachmann the best photography prize at the Venice International Film Festival.
When
8pm - 10pm
Where
Todd Haynes, Far From Heaven
© ARP Sélection, 2022