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'Safe' Trailer |
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23 June 1995 |
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Sony Pictures Classics |
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1 hr. 59 min. |
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Overwiew :Carol White is an affluent Los Angeles housewife whose pristine, doll-like environment turns against her in the form of an inexplicable illness. What begins as sudden allergic reactions to everyday chemicals, fragrances and fumes turns increasingly violent, transforming the laminated safety of Carol's existence into a terror of everyday life. When she is diagnosed with an immunity disorder called 'Twentieth Century Illness' and sets off to New Mexico in search of treatment, Carol's journey turns inward. And, in the crisis of identity that results, the film reveals the way in which disease infects our basic sense of who we are. |
Starring :
Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris, Julie Burgess, Ronnie Farer
Directors :
Todd Haynes
Producers :
James Schamus, Ted Hope, Lindsay Law
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www.movie-vault.com - : In the San Fernando Valley in 1987 a couple lives a bland, affluent lifestyle. They have a large, stylish house, a maid, one child – a son from his previous marriage - and only he works for a living. She gardens, wearing gloves, as he goes off to work, though the flowers she tends are drooping, dying. There’s a reminder to call the landscapers and she’s having a new couch delivered today. This couple seems to lack the slightest intimacy even when making love. In the missionary position, he’s briefly passionate, but he could be having sex with a blown-up doll. She’s uninvolved, miles away, although she holds him patiently and reassuringly in the way one holds a child. In the camera’s angle from straight above them, it’s clear that this is accepted as normal, as though they have no idea of any other way of being. The film has a feel of sterility and unengaged role-playing in the superficial catalogue glossiness of their uneventful lives. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : With ''Safe,'' artist, semiologist and filmmaker Todd Haynes takes what might have been a deadly disease-of-the-week movie and turns it into a chic postmodern chiller. This spooky film's ostensible subject—an environmental illness known as multiple chemical sensitivity—is merely a starting place for this mesmerizing horror movie, feminist tract and medical mystery. more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : In addition to a vast array of benefits, the industrialization of this planet has brought with it numerous problems. Chemicals, pesticides, and poisons are everywhere; pollutants clog the air. Most of us adjust, breathing in fumes with little more than a distasteful crinkling of the nose. There are those, however -- home-makers, mainly -- who suddenly and inexplicably become allergic to the 20th century. Afflicted with a malady called ''environmental illness'', a condition claimed to be psychosomatic by many doctors, these women and men suffer an immunity system breakdown that destroys their ability to enjoy contemporary urban life. To survive, they must seek the quiet solace of an out-of-the-way retreat where they can find a ''safe room'' and ''clear'' the poisons from their body. more...
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