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All That Heaven Allows Reviews

  • Katlyn 2022-01-18 08:01:22

    All That Heaven Allows: An Articulate Screen by Laura Mulvey

    Douglas Sirk once said: "This is the dialectic—there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art." When All That Heaven Allows was released by Universal Pictures in 1955, it was just another critically...

  • Carrie 2022-01-18 08:01:22

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    The film has a clear intention, showing the contradictions and conflicts between outlook on life, values ​​and love. The first is class contradiction. The upper-class people and the lower-class civilians coexist in the world, seemingly developing harmoniously, but each form a living circle. There...

  • Kacie 2022-01-18 08:01:22

    Dream of love

    What hell is, for me, is the pain that can no longer be loved-Dostoevsky let the professional film critics discuss it! I think that I am a publisher who advises readers who are trying to understand Joyce's Ulysses to read the Old Testament like a country priest with little literacy, as long as he...

  • German 2022-01-18 08:01:22

    [Film Review] All That Heaven Allows (1955) 8.4/10

    An auteur maudit of his time, German émigré Douglas Sirk's renown has been considerably reappraised with much admiration for his trademark disposition of light and color, the swelling watchability sublimated from its saccharine source material, aka. the often derogated melodrama, and affecting...

  • Maggie 2022-01-18 08:01:22

    Caprice

    "Deep Locking Chunguang Yiyuan": The degree of completion is very high, the lines are exquisitely set, and the pictures are vivid in color. Such a sad and moving plot, the difficulties and choices it brings are comparable to watching "Roman Holiday" in the third grade. After watching a bit, I...