Safe (Haynes, 1995): ICA Cinema, 8.45pm
This film is part of the season curated by artist Gray Wielebinski who has an exhibition currently at the ICA. You can find details of all the movies here.
Chicago Reader review:
An unsettling work (1995) by subversive American independent Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven),
his first film in 35-millimeter and best film overall. It's been
described as a movie about "environmental illness," but don't let that
fool you: the alienation of one suburban housewife in southern
California, effectively captured by Julianne Moore, may take physical
form, but its sources are clearly spiritual and ideological. Haynes does
a powerful job of conveying his hatred for the character's Sherman Oaks
milieu (where he himself grew up) through his crafty and at times
almost hallucinatory layering of sound and image. (Though Haynes's
methodology is his own, you may be reminded at times of Michelangelo
Antonioni and Chantal Akerman.) He also offers a scathing (if
poker-faced) satire on New Age notions of healing. This creepy art movie
will stay with you.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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