All That Heaven Allows (Criterion Collection)
How much does Heaven Allow a Woman in Love?
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 12, 2019
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jane Wyman & Rock Hudson | |
Performer: | William Reynolds, Agnes Moorehead, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott & Conrad Nagel | |
Directed by | Douglas Sirk | |
Edited by | Frank Gross | |
Screenplay by | Peg Fenwick | |
Composition by | Frank Skinner | |
Produced by | Ross Hunter | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Metty |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
One of Sirk's finest films.
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TV Guide
Strongly slanted to ring the bell with soap-opera fans, but otherwise of limited appeal.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
As the camera gradually moves in on Cary's despairing face in reflection, we know the mantra of "life's parade at your fingertips" is really a mandate for her own imprisonment
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Patrick Nabarro
Rating: 9/10 --
Proof that there is artistry and glory in a genre that never had to apologise for itself, not when it was this confident, beautiful, and good.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS is simply a stunning visual achievement, with Sirk employing deeply saturated color and geometrical compositions to rapturous effect...
A.V. Club
Beneath the stunningly lovely visuals -- all expressionist colours, reflections, and frames-within-frames, used to produce a precise symbolism -- lies a kernel of terrifying despair
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Time Out
Sirk benefited immeasurably from the fact that the chief subject of his crazy cinema was postwar America.
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Product Description:
In ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, Douglas Sirk's haunting suburban morality play, Jane Wyman plays Cary Scott, a wealthy middle-aged widow in love with a younger man considered by those around her to be far below her social standing. Her torrid affair with Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson), a handsome, earthy gardener, quickly creates unbearable societal pressure for Cary. Giving in to the scathing criticism of her stodgy neighbors and her materialistic children, Cary severs contact with Ron. She then discovers--perhaps too late--that her heart cannot be so easily caged.
Wyman delivers a strong, emotive performance, and Hudson smolders as her feverish romantic interest. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, marked by Sirk's distinctive, lavish visual style, stands as a searing example of how materialism can result in alienation from natural feelings. The film was remade in 1974 with additional interracial themes by German director (and unabashed Sirk fan) Rainer Werner Fassbinder as ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL; and later paid homage by Todd Haynes in his 2002 reworking FAR FROM HEAVEN.
Wyman delivers a strong, emotive performance, and Hudson smolders as her feverish romantic interest. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, marked by Sirk's distinctive, lavish visual style, stands as a searing example of how materialism can result in alienation from natural feelings. The film was remade in 1974 with additional interracial themes by German director (and unabashed Sirk fan) Rainer Werner Fassbinder as ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL; and later paid homage by Todd Haynes in his 2002 reworking FAR FROM HEAVEN.
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