When Rainer Maria Fassbinder remade Douglas Sirk's classic 1954 melodrama ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) as ALI, FEAR EATS THE SOUL (1974), he broadened Sirk's indictment of society's attitudes toward sex, age, gender roles and class to include race. Todd Haynes's own gorgeous replica has them both beat: His sexually neglected heroine (a flawless Julianne Moore) not only earns the opprobrium of her uptight, upper-class community by becoming romantically linked to a "Negro," but she now has a gay husband (Dennis Quaid) as well. Haynes also returns the action to a setting in which none of this would have been at all acceptable: the tony suburbs of Hartford, Conn., circa...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
107 mins