Far from Heaven
<b>The screening on Tuesday 16th December, 18:00 will have an introduction from Dr Malgorzata Bugaj.</b> <b>Book tickets for two or more of our Melodrama films to receive a discount! Tickets can also be bought separately.</b> Director Todd Haynes' love letter to the melodrama and the work of Douglas Sirk, <i>Far From Heaven</i> sees Julianne Moore sparkle as a housewife whose life is upended by both a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in 1950s Connecticut society. Taking strong inspiration from Sirk's <i>All That Heaven Allows</i> which we are also showing alongside it, <i>Far From Heaven</i> explores many issues that impacted mid-century life including racism and views on homosexuality all in the package of a 1950s-style melodrama. The director/actress combination of Haynes and Moore return to working together here after 1995's <i>Safe</i>, providing another companionship of sorts within our melodrama season! <i>Dr Malgorzata Bugaj is a Film and Media Studies Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Open Learning where she teaches short open-access courses, such as Cinema and the Five Senses or Women Directors in Focus. She is a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities <a href="https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-malgorzata-bugaj">exploring the intersection of film and medical humanities</a>. She also works as a freelance curator, organising film events in Edinburgh and beyond.</i>DramaPT1H47M12A2025-12-14Julianne Moore
Dennis Quaid
Dennis Haysbert
Todd Haynes
Christine Vachon
Jody Patton
Far from Heaven"Far from Heaven"Showtimes
December 14, 5:15 pm
December 16, 6:00 pm
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