Safe (1995)
Carol White is a happy housewfife lives with her husband and step- son in the San Fernando Valley. However, she does have a nagging cough which makes her uncover allergy.
3 October 1969, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 June 1981
12 May 1962, Lakeland, Florida, USA
24 April 1949, New York City, New York, USA
8 April 1963, South Bend, Indiana, USA
4 October 1944, New York City, New York, USA
8 October 1960, New York, USA
June 07, 2016
In many ways, 'Safe' predicts both the insular nature of contemporary society, and the (counter-intuitive) disease of conformity that's synonymous with it.
December 10, 2014
Safe is brilliant for the way Haynes, with cinematographer Alex Nepomniaschy and composer Ed Tomney, blankets the mundane in the eerie tone of science fiction and horror.
July 21, 2010
This creepy art movie will stay with you.
June 24, 2013
With anti-star boldness, Moore doesn't so much embody the role as disembody it, dissolving before our eyes.
March 26, 2009
The audaciousness that marked Todd Haynes' earlier work has been supplanted by self-important preachiness.
June 24, 2013
You'd have to be cranky or blind to deny Haynes' artistry and vision. There's a dark power, a tremor that runs through the movie like the rumble of a secret dread.
June 24, 2006
The ironic handling of decor and characterisation builds an eerie portrait of the blissed-out West Coast bourgeoisie at their most brainwashed.
July 06, 2010
In a summer of heavyweight action movies and flyweight romantic comedies, I don't think you'll find a more provocative little number than Safe, which creeps under your skin like a rash.
February 07, 2015
For all its disquiet, Safe is truly about the terror of losing control-or, even more frightening, being made aware of the fact that we never had control to begin with.
June 24, 2013
Frequently fascinating, it never builds into anything profound.
June 24, 2013
Moore, in a nearly unplayable role, is amazingly vivid and touching; this is a heartbreaking portrait of a woman in full, panicked retreat from life.
June 24, 2013
Moore, evidently under Haynes' instruction, gives a performance composed of near-total inertia. Her pale lifelessness -- meant to be frightening, I suppose -- is merely irritating.
