James LeGros, Janel Moloney, Julianne Moore
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 ch...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 21, 2001
Stats: 304 reviews
Provoking look at how we struggle to deal with disease and mortality in our godless world.
Relevant and frightening if perhaps a tad sluggish and studied. Director Todd Haynes does amazing things on shoestring budgets.
With Safe, I'm sure there were some interesting things and comments going on but the extreme boredom I was overcome with while watching this movie killed my ability to recognize them. Julianne Moore plays a mousy, spineless and generally uninteresting wife overcome with a breakdo...( read more)
I hate giving less than stellar reviews based on a movie's pacing, as I think that's a poor excuse for a low attention span..but this movie was just painfully slow. I know that's the point - I wasn't expecting a tension-filled drama. I just fell asleep during this bad boy. Sigh
Burningly unique and very evocative. It may be a little bit overdone in its lingering, interminably long shots of Julianne Moore wandering restlessly with no real purpose, but it kind of sums up her character's life.
I do love Safe's sense of tact. The movie is exploding with s...( read more)
The beauty of 'Safe' is that it allows the viewer to come up with their own interpretations; is Carol's sickness really the result of hyper sensitivity to toxins or is it because she's feeling alienated in her environment? Or is it self loathing? Carol's world is the very definit...( read more)
A powerful, bold and enigmatic feminist film. This is what true independent cinema is really all about. Julianne Moore gives what is perhaps the performance of the decade. The absolute brilliance of the story is how Haynes doesn't presume to have the answers. His humility shines ...( read more)
Note the caption: "best film of the decade". If anyone ever says this to you, slap them in the face. This IS the movie for pseudo intellectual film students.
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