Seen Said
29Nov11
I was too. I couldn't stop watching it and fell in love more and more and more.
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HwCath
16May12
After deliberately holding off on watching Douglas Sirk (since I'm a big fan of directors influenced by him), I can say the experience was surprising. Its such a beautiful looking classical melodrama! It displays such wit while attacking the emptiness of American Materialism. I just love the microcosm of characters within this suburban town. I would love to live there, even though its pretty soulless.
Pierluigi Puccini
16May12
Some people never realize how society, traditions and values imprisons and forces them to conform with banality. A candid and romantic look of a taboo relationship, done with such picturesque beauty that is hard not to be moved and enchanted by it.
Rahul
26Feb12
The film works on two levels, appealing to two categories of film-viewer: the storyline is pure melodrama, and the style is all Sirk. Every scene is beautifully crafted, every color on screen tells its own story; all the while, Sirk gently places his lens on the divisive class conflicts of white America in the 50s.
Trevor
14Feb12
Sirk's greatest film. An emotionally devastating melodrama of suffocating social prejudices filmed in gloriously unsettling Technicolor. Sirk is one of the cinema's great visual stylists, and this is him at the peak of his powers: form and content go hand in hand, and in many cases, the form IS the content. Gorgeous and heartbreaking.
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trolley freak
24Jan12
Sirk's film can be viewed as a tearjerker but scratch beneath the surface and it is also a scathing attack on middle class snobbery and intolerance. Wyman is the middle-aged widow who falls in love with Hudson's gardener, much to the disapproval of her family and friends. Will she give into pressure and end the relationship or stay true to her heart? Stunning visuals decorate a masterpiece of the melodrama genre.....
Nelson Núñez
24Dec11
Un extraordinario melodrama que me atrevería a calificar de perfecto: el guión es impecable (nada falta ni sobra), la puesta en escena es admirable en su transparencia y hermosura (a destacar los planos en contraluz con los protagonistas en la casa del molino). El tema del individuo que se debate entre ser fiel a sí mismo o ceder ante los convencionalismos de una sociedad jamás perderá vigencia.
lolo341
23Dec11
Doc called it: "You were ready for a love affair but not for love." Instead she traded it for a tv. "All you have to do is turn that dial and you've got all the company you want right there on the screen. Drama, comedy, life's parade at your fingertips." I liked this but not as much as Written on the Wind. Extra special kudos to Agnes Moorehead as Cary's faithful friend Sara.
apexa
22Nov11
Gorgeous, subtle, and really beautifully humanizes an older lead female very well that helps illustrate a distancing from the studio era that ended few years before.
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MarcH
6Aug11
Warning: Douglas Sirk is highly addicting. You'll start hearing orchestra swells every time your life takes a shitty turn.
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andres
14Feb11
the scene in the daughters bedroom was just, MAGNIFICENT,tasty and lush. and i just rolled when rock hudson said "im helping him unload".
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Stu Witmer
12Aug10
Sirk's movies drive me nuts!!! I lived through the 50's and I sure don't want to see it again in Technicolor!!! But, wait... let me calm down.... Sirk's movies are actually nothing like what the 50's WERE... more like what many people (specifically avid movie goers like my mom!) wanted to think the 50's were like. And for me, that's yet another reason to avoid Sirk like the plague... But I'm not doing to good a job at that since I've seen them all. In the final analysis I suppose I can say: If you gotta see a Sirk movie it might as well be this one. It's positively surreal.
Daniel S.
3Dec09
Douglas Sirk directed in the 50’s five or six melodramas that are undoubtedly masterpieces and I consider him as the inventor of the soap opera. As a matter of course, Sirk’s melodramas have nothing to do anymore with the things we see nowadays on our TV sets. They are metaphysical (dixit Douglas Sirk) and their basic screenplays allow the audience to be elated by the musical score, the always superb sets and the colors of the film. The German born director was able to make you feel every single thoughts experienced by the characters. He also had brilliant cinematic ideas such as the TV sets that only reflect what’s in front of them in ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. Masterpiece. A DVD zone your library.
