--- Tag Gallagher <tag@...> wrote:
> If you see Todd
> Haynes's Far from Heaven
> you can see a vomitosious parody of Sirk that is, in
> fact, exactly the
> sort of commentary on bourgeois American life that
> Sirk never did and
> which regurgitators have decreed as though it were a
> truism to be the
> essence of Sirk himself.
>
>
"Far From Heaven" is NOT a parody of Sirk.It's a
revisiting of his themes combined with a revisiting of
aspects of Ophuls' American works -- particularly "The
Reckless Moment" -- a very important film. While
"sampling" "All That Heavn Allows," and "Imitation of
Life" Todd does so in order to introduce additional
material that wouldn't have been dealt with in the
50's -- in the style of the 50's. This parallels what
McGehee and Siegel do with their "Reckless Moment"
remake "The Deep End" which is set in contemporary
circumstance and style.

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