SAFE

USA | 1995 | 35mm | 119 min.
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, James Le Gros
Before they re-teamed on Far From Heaven, Haynes and actress Julianne Moore collaborated on another critically acclaimed study of a distressed suburban American housewife. When Carol White (Moore) finds that previously harmless household items have become highly toxic to her, she gradually discovers that she is completely allergic to her environment. Chilling and brilliantly acted, the story successfully manages to satirize nothing less than new age medicine and therapies, self-help groups, contemporary marriage, and our entire consumer culture. 35mm print courtesy Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.