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Synopsis

Ambiguous and unsettling horror movie starring Julianne Moore as the woman whose 'perfect' life is destroyed by environmental sickness

About

Psychological drama following a suburban housewife's (Julianne Moore) descent into psychosis.

Despite her enviably stress-free existence she is subject to a variety of inexplicable afflictions: headaches, nausea, shortness of breath. These, it transpires, are the result of an allergy to the modern world.

Cast & Connections

Actor: Ronnie Farer, Xander Berkeley, Jodie Markell, Dean Norris, Steven Gilborn, Julianne Moore, Julie Burgess
Director: Todd Haynes
Writer: Todd Haynes
Producer: Lauren Zalaznick, Christine Vachon
Photographer: Alex Nepomniaschy
Composer: Ed Tomney

In a nutshell

Velvet Goldmine director Todd Haynes has always tended towards the clinical, an approach which in this dark and ambiguous allegory proves ever so coolly appropriate.

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