#739: HAYNES, Todd: Safe (1995)
HAYNES, Todd (United States)
Safe [1995]
Spine #739
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
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.
119 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2014
Director/Writer
Todd Haynes was 34 when he wrote and directed Safe.
Other Haynes films in the Collection:
#1164: The Velvet Underground (2021)
The Film
Other Haynes films in the Collection:
#1164: The Velvet Underground (2021)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Eight-panel foldout featuring an essay by critic Dennis Lim.
Commentary
Featuring Haynes, actor Moore, and producer Christine Vachon.
Conversation
Between Haynes and Moore.
The Suicide
A l978 short film by Haynes.
Interview
With Vachon.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Eight-panel foldout featuring an essay by critic Dennis Lim.
Commentary
Featuring Haynes, actor Moore, and producer Christine Vachon.
Conversation
Between Haynes and Moore.
The Suicide
A l978 short film by Haynes.
Interview
With Vachon.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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