Safe (1995)

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Set in an affluent neighbourhood of the San Fernando Valley in 1987, the film recounts the life of a seemingly unremarkable homemaker, Carol White who develops multiple chemical sensitivity.

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Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Horror

Country: UK, USA

Directed By: Todd Haynes

Written By: Todd Haynes

Starring: Xander Berkeley, Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Beth Grant, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Mary Carver, Jessica Harper, Jodie Markell, Ronnie Farer, Dean Norris, Julie Burgess

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Date	User	Rating
Jun 08	thirdeye42	71 _48%
Jun 07	kartoffel10	85 _65%
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Dec 20, 2017	Systematicer	70 _69%
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Nov 25, 2017	ritamae	87 _41%
Nov 02, 2017	Matt92	95 _65%
Oct 26, 2017	Russ Bedford	74 _82%
Oct 22, 2017	anaskvit	75 _43%
Oct 10, 2017	JohnPaul821	90 _86%
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Oct 01, 2017	sandrikoti	50 _12%
Sep 24, 2017	Paudie	45 _33%
Sep 11, 2017	annetronz	85 _58%
Sep 02, 2017	heliz	90 _70%
Aug 31, 2017	izwt936g	70 _61%
Aug 26, 2017	desudesu	25 _1%
Aug 24, 2017	birrups	87 _72%
Aug 09, 2017	jlewis	86 _61%
Jul 20, 2017	Syntheseizur	85 _83%
Haynes wrings terror out of the mundanity of sterile, upper class suburbia during the superficial '80s in a tale about the alienation of bourgeois privilege and the need for security from uncertainty as he frames the characters in their domestic spaces. The film anticipates the modern obsession with holistic medicine and anti-science conspiracies, but it's also an investigation into a uniquely-American brand of female objectification, capitalist claustrophobia, and the associated anxieties.
Jul 16, 2017	Gossamer	2 _60%
Jul 10, 2017	ptkw	70 _84%
Jul 09, 2017	NevinLiu	84 _83%
Jul 05, 2017	WWallce4prez	90 _94%
There is a lot to be thankful for when it comes to Todd Haynes, but two reasons, in particular, come to mind with Safe: Julianne Moore and anxiety. The craft displayed in pasting literal anxiety onto the screen is mesmerizing. Moore is fantastic in her first leading role as she chews the screen with her empty stares and nervous smiles.
Jun 24, 2017	girlfriday	95 _85%
Jun 17, 2017	Arlowe_	73 _69%
Jun 04, 2017	BlakeEngel	7 _16%
In Safe, the main character is a mirror and a symbol. Barely there, as thin as can be both emotionally and just as a character on the page, Carol is either a symbol of how any random person will succumb to the unintended side-effects of contemporary society, or how any random person can be entirely lost in psychosomatic illness. I'm not entirely sure what, if any, message or lesson one should take from this film. All I know is that Carol is so barely there that it starts to drag the film down.
May 31, 2017	kombelpeter	78 _25%
May 21, 2017	anonm	84 _62%
May 12, 2017	ashfieldmall	70 _70%
May 10, 2017	DrWade42	88 _87%
Apr 29, 2017	littlepanda	9 _88%
Apr 11, 2017	Henrik	90 _95%
Apr 11, 2017	poltergeist	45 _21%
Apr 09, 2017	ICMforum	90 _62%
Mar 30, 2017	cheapthrills	70 _36%
Mar 20, 2017	thrillington	95 _80%
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Feb 27, 2017	redflag	94 _76%
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Feb 24, 2017	P u l p	85 _90%
"Love yourself"
Feb 24, 2017	RYM-byrates	76 _95%
Feb 23, 2017	ercaderk	83 _41%
Feb 21, 2017	MrHallenbeck	92 _86%
Feb 18, 2017	gorkemoge	70 _69%
Feb 18, 2017	cherrorist	50 _25%
Starts off good, but grows boring after 45 minutes, tedious after an hour or so, and the true horror comes from realizing you've wasted two hours of your life to something this pointless. Suspense comes from waiting for it to end, drama from explaining your spouse it was suggested by Criticker, and Criticker rarely misses. Moore's great, though, she's a great actress.
Feb 12, 2017	Mochard	60 _28%
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May 10, 2016	ibrahimbars	69 _59%
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Apr 12, 2016	Darren	70 _52%
White people the movie. Looked nice tho.
Apr 11, 2016	FrancoZero	18 _95%
Apr 07, 2016	bobsinclair6	98 _70%
Apr 04, 2016	drpretenamen	90 _79%
Apr 04, 2016	sellis	88 _83%
An accomplishment in tone and performance. The use of perspective is crucial. Suffocating wide shots. Unconventional coverage makes when terror strikes feel sudden and inevitable. The synth score works until the final scenes, supplanting silence from the first half with aimless noise. The feeling of isolation, lack of emotional catharsis for the protagonist, us knowing she's likely incapable of ending this phase of her life, is reminiscent of A Woman Under the Influence in the best possible way.
Mar 31, 2016	RWL	4 _53%
Mar 29, 2016	meliorism	70 _43%
Mar 26, 2016	cbennett	80 _86%
Mar 20, 2016	Carlospro	85 _91%
Mar 19, 2016	tmlilty	100 _43%
Mar 17, 2016	Yiannos	60 _42%
An odd mix of Cronenbergian style body horror and Antonioni like artistry, Safe was an unusually heady American 'indie' film for its time that traded in fashionable irony for complete seriousness. The cold clinical tone is eerily precise: it traps Carol/Moore within the frame, highlighting her isolation, powerlessness and increasing sense of dislocation. It's a moody urban dramatic 'horror' about the problems of modern living, but it bites off more than it can chew and overstays its welcome.
Mar 08, 2016	frederic_g54	6 _35%
More substantive in its less than flattering depiction of upper class pomposity than in its portrait of a dejected young woman struggling with issues of self-identity. Especially since the latter continually teeters on the verge of self-parody to the point where it becomes unintentionally hilarious - if not hopelessly misguided. Moore gives a great turn, however.
Mar 04, 2016	kylefilms	90 _87%
Feb 28, 2016	veever	85 _67%
Feb 24, 2016	ramshackled	100 _91%
Feb 14, 2016	cemzn	80 _48%
Feb 11, 2016	Ildorio10	80 _58%
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Jan 06, 2016	Andrew13	88 _70%
Jan 05, 2016	AlexanderMG	91 _81%
Jan 02, 2016	exitexitquit	78 _72%
Dec 30, 2015	MUBIvotes	39 _81%
Dec 27, 2015	Suture Self	9 _91%
The driving question in Safe is, "What is it that really ails Carol?" What's so insidious about this question is that it appears to be unanswerable. It might be a metaphysical question, but the revulsions of her body make us believe it's something more, something tangible. It might be an empirical question, but the limits of science prove to be inadequate; medicine and psychology fails her. Yet, this invisible agony pops up everywhere; in Carol, in you, in me. The horror is in not knowing why.
Dec 15, 2015	robot2xl	73 _48%
Dec 12, 2015	Aventinus	69 _64%
Dec 07, 2015	LB94	75 _40%
Nov 30, 2015	laika	72 _51%
Nov 30, 2015	Fenius	90 _73%
Nov 24, 2015	AFlickering	88 _87%
perhaps a little broad to quite hit masterpiece territory for me, but i wouldn't be surprised if a rewatch removed all doubts.
Nov 14, 2015	Swoony	77 _55%
Nov 11, 2015	maksler	70 _47%
Oct 24, 2015	Kerc	27 _87%
Oct 17, 2015	amanohyo	60 _88%
Oct 16, 2015	roger-ebert	30 _53%
Sep 29, 2015	M-B-M	8 _94%
Sep 27, 2015	SnoopyStyle	60 _43%
Sep 17, 2015	lucidquasar	70 _38%
Sep 13, 2015	ultrahobo	60 _31%
Aug 29, 2015	berlach	94 _87%
Aug 22, 2015	moodeuce	90 _87%
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Aug 13, 2015	Nathan	67 _42%
Aug 12, 2015	AICHE	76 _64%
Aug 09, 2015	YourNameHere	90 _62%
Aug 09, 2015	cinemahater	88 _95%
Aug 08, 2015	kastenm	63 _31%
Aug 01, 2015	GRouleau	78 _79%
Jul 28, 2015	Moribunny	88 _96%
A haunting movie. The height of their career for everyone involved.
Jul 27, 2015	DougieD	85 _62%
Jul 27, 2015	Mihai93	90 _43%
Jul 19, 2015	syenigun	19 _42%
Jul 19, 2015	hristos	80 _88%
Jul 12, 2015	M.Robitussin	95 _85%
profoundly scary movie, when you get right down to it. it's body horror taken to its logical extreme in its own way as much as Cronenberg's The Fly. exquisitely written, mounted & acted.
Jul 03, 2015	mvsilva	82 _65%
Jun 14, 2015	annie	70 _69%
Jun 05, 2015	Oktay	85 _88%
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Apr 30, 2015	junkielee	80 _64%
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Dec 31, 2014	TraverseTown	100 _98%
Dec 21, 2014	driscarpin	87 _83%
Todd Haynes não é tudo?
Dec 14, 2014	Fsjallink	87 _85%
Dec 07, 2014	onuryilyang	80 _67%
Dec 01, 2014	lockstock	4 _13%
kut saaie film voor depri wijve en ik moet da dan t8 geve pff...cuculiza: "A genuine horror film disguised as a psycho drama. And it's truly terrifying." hahaha wa ne ziiieeeevereir
Nov 08, 2014	DeusTetsuo	20 _6%
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