Far from Heaven

Far from Heaven

What imprisons desires of the heart?

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Release Date

11/8/2002

Runtime

107 mins

Overview

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$13,500,000

Revenue

$29,027,914

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A meticulously composed meditation on constraint and desire set in postwar suburbia, where a wife must reckon with her husband's hidden life and her own stirring heart against the suffocating backdrop of 1950s social expectation. It's a film that observes heartbreak with formal precision and genuine empathy.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulTense

Themes

IdentityLoveRace

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

FormalistPainterlyHigh-contrast

Structure

Linear

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