Safe
(DVD) 

Book Cover
Average Rating
Contributors
Haynes, Todd, film director.
Moore, Julianne, actor.
Berkeley, Xander, 1955- actor.
Norris, Dean, actor.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 739
Published
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2014].
Status
Available
Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA SAFE
1 available

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Description

"Julianne Moore (Short Cuts) gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven), Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you cannot see. This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll of more than fifty critics."

More Details

Format
DVD
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
9781604659313
UPC
715515133111

Notes

General Note
Title from sell sheet.
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.
General Note
Special features: audio commentary; conversation between Haynes and Moore; "The suicide", a 1978 short film by Haynes; New interview with Vachon; trailer; essay by critic Dennis Lim.
Participants/Performers
Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris.
Description
Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what cannot be seen.
Target Audience
MPAA rating: R; for a sex scene and brief language.
System Details
DVD, widescreen (1.85:1), mono.

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Published Reviews

Library Journal Review

An upper-middle-class L.A. housewife (Julianne Moore) suffering from an elusive malady whose symptoms-coughing fits, nosebleeds, shortness of breath, etc.-may be psychosomatic or caused by environmental allergies futilely relies on a trendy, self-help treatment center even as her condition worsens. Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven) initially perplexed audiences and critics with his just-show-don't-tell approach, but, for viewers who do not require clear-cut answers, time has been kind to this allegorical drama. [See Trailers, LJ 11/1/14.] (c) Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Library Journal Reviews

An upper-middle-class L.A. housewife (Julianne Moore) suffering from an elusive malady whose symptoms—coughing fits, nosebleeds, shortness of breath, etc.—may be psychosomatic or caused by environmental allergies futilely relies on a trendy, self-help treatment center even as her condition worsens. Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven) initially perplexed audiences and critics with his just-show-don't-tell approach, but, for viewers who do not require clear-cut answers, time has been kind to this allegorical drama. [See Trailers, LJ 11/1/14.]

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Haynes, T., Moore, J., Berkeley, X., & Norris, D. (2014). Safe (Widescreen ed.). The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Todd, Haynes et al.. 2014. Safe. [New York, New York]: The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Todd, Haynes et al.. Safe [New York, New York]: The Criterion Collection, 2014.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Haynes, T., Moore, J., Berkeley, X. and Norris, D. (2014). Safe. Widescreen ed. [New York, New York]: The Criterion Collection.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Haynes, Todd,, Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, and Dean Norris. Safe Widescreen ed., The Criterion Collection, 2014.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

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