Safe

Director: Todd Haynes

1995 / 119min / 4K DCP

Julianne Moore, her brittle, finely-calibrated, and ultimately heart-rending performance in perfect sync with the eerie formal precision of Haynes’s filmmaking, plays a model homemaker in suburban Los Angeles who, convinced that she is being slowly poisoned by invisible but omnipresent chemical toxins in the air around her, takes ever more extreme steps to immure herself from the threat posed by the world outside. Voted the Best Film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll, Haynes’s turn-of-the-screw psychological horror has hardly become any less potent in our present age of epidemic agoraphobia and general anxiety concerning the hazards of shared social space.

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

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