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Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife with healthy children, a successful husband and a great social life. One night she catches her husband having sex with another man and her world suddenly collapses. This leads her into a relationship with her black American gardener - a socially unacceptable friendship at the time.
...An accomplished marriage of elaborate style and content....The film is a jewel on every technical level. Its visual sumptuousness seduces from the opening frame to the last...
...Ardent and intelligent....Mr. Haynes is fiercely devoted to his actors....It discover the aching, desiring humanity in a genre -- and a period....In a word, it's divine...
...Haynes gets the look and feel right...FAR FROM HEAVEN also has emotional force...
...It's a bold experiment....[With a] terrific look and perfectly pitched performances...
...FAR FROM HEAVEN is nothing short of a masterpiece....It seems, in a single visionary stroke, to have taken the spirit of American independent cinema and brought it full circle back to the soul of vintage Hollywood...
...[Moore gives an] extraordinarily nuanced performance...
...A gorgeously overheated imitation of life...