All That Heaven Allows - Criterion Collection
by Douglas Sirk
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Actor: Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Virginia GreyDirector: Douglas Sirk
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
Editor: Frank Gross
Editor: Fred Baratta
Producer: Ross Hunter
Writer: Edna L. Lee
Writer: Harry Lee
Writer: Peg Fenwick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of All That Heaven Allows - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Cougar-Douglas Sirk Style
Summary: 5 Stars
Director Douglas Sirk is a true cinematic master. On the surface his films would appear to be fuzzy melodrama. Scratch the surface and look beyond the apparent glitz more serious themes emerge. Beneath the gloss Sirk is examing prejudice or exploring it to the degree that the bean counters would allow. The real prejudice here isn't so much the age discrepancy between Ron(Rock Hudson) and Carrie(Jane Wyman). No, the self appointed in-crowd show their disapproval towards Ron's chosen profession, gardening or horticulturalism is more appropo. This prejudice really masks their envy in that Ron doesn't really care and goes to the beat of his own drummer whereas they are straightjacketed in boring lives that were predetermined for them. Like their prior outing in Sirk's "Magnificent Obsession" Hudson and Wyman strike kinetic romantic sparks. As fitting for the material the age discrepancy seems more pronounced then it did in "Magnificent Obsession". This film would make a terrific double-bill with Todd Haynes' "Far FRom Heaven", a homage to Sirk and this film in particular. Both films are terrific but Haynes is able to more explicitly explore themes that Sirk was only allowed to allude to.
Summary of All That Heaven Allows - Criterion Collection
Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk's heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces, and frames-within-frames to convey the loneliness and isolation of a matriarch trapped by the snobbery of her children and the gossip of her social-climbing country club chums. Criterion is proud to present this subversive Hollywood tearjerker in a new Special Edition.Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman were so successful in Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession that they reteamed for this, his first melodrama masterpiece. Young hunk Rock is a strapping son of mother nature, a gardener who woos middle-aged, middle class widow Wyman to the snooty disapproval of her conservative social circle and embarrassment of her self-centered children. Wyman discovers a new life with his open-armed friends and back-to-nature lifestyle, but struggles with life-changing decisions in the face of social pressure and vicious gossip. Living the Henry Thoreau dream, Rock inhabits his personal Walden in a rustic country cabin by a bubbling brook, a dream house lit by a giant picture window overlooking an idyllic countryside where deer pose just outside the window. Wyman's elegant but sterile suburban home transforms into a tomb when she sacrifices her love for the "good name" of her children, and the lonely widow sees her future in the pale, colorless reflection of her TV screen. But don't despair just yet: Sirk's heroines are dynamic and resourceful and no Sirk melodrama ends without a heart-tugging, over-the-top twist. German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who championed Sirk as a master and a mentor, remade the film as Ali: Fear Eats the Soul decades later. --Sean Axmaker
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