After months of dragging my feet, I finally signed up for the Criterion Channel last month, precisely because I had just seen Portrait of a Lady on Fire and was annoyed I couldn’t find Céline Sciamma’s debut Water Lilies (featuring a bb Adèle Haenel as a smoldering teen swim instructor) streaming anywhere. This isn’t an ad, but just a month or so in and I feel like I’m getting my money’s worth. Case in point, another previously un-streamable masterpiece was recently made available to watch right now: Todd Haynes’s 1995 movie Safe.\n
After months of dragging my feet, I finally signed up for the Criterion Channel last month, precisely because I had just seen streaming anywhere. This isn’t an ad, but just a month or so in and I feel like I’m getting my money’s worth. Case in point, another previously un-Safe, Julianne Moore plays Carol White, a meek suburban housewife living in 1987 Los Angeles.
her life is toxic to her, which confuses her square friends and family. This unknowable affliction brings her to a community of others who feel “allergic to the 20th century,” and Carol goes so far as to quarantine herself from others to get better.Get better how? It’s not totally clear. Haynes’s movie is frigid in the way his other features like, both lush with color and texture, aren’t.
story behind the DuPont company and the discovery that Teflon caused cancer and other defects in those who used it. Though it was an informative and startling movie,takes a lot of its themes and runs with them with a sense of art-house weirdness, an approach I hope Haynes returns to in whatever his next movie might be.
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