Julianne Moore in the 1995 movie "Safe"

Yes, I loved this film when it came out and have it on DVD....it's very spare, hypnotic and enigmatic & Moore's performance is compelling throughout. Todd Haynes was a fairly underground director at this point in his career and the film divided critics on its release (they either adored or hated it) so Oscar nominations weren't a likely prospect.

I hated it. Munchhausen’s bitch.

I truly hated this film as well. Haynes is a great filmmaker but this was self-indulgent hype and hooey. Could not have cared less about Julianne's character's plight. I kept dreaming of hiding her epi-pen ...

Is this the one where she flashes her orange flange?

I'm with R2 and 3. The film is way too long and Moore's character is so vacuous that she doesn't seem capable of tying her own shoe.

Obviously this is deliberate but as a result, there's nothing at stake with her character. If she were more of a rounded character as opposed to a concept of one, there would be some real drama there.

I'm not much of a fan of Hayes' work, though he clearly has some talent. He strikes me as being much too cerebral for his own good.

That's in SHORT CUTS, R4.

I remember watching Short Cuts with my Mother back in the early 90s as we were both great fans of Altman. You can imagine our shared horror when this young titian beauty took off her skirt and started moving around with her orange rug showing!

I’m a fan of Julianne Moore’s but I thought the ending every sentence with a question mark to denote insecurity shtick got tired very fast. As someone already said, her character was too vacuous to be invested in.

I wonder what the husband thought once she couldn't wear makeup anymore!

I saw this when it was first released. It may not seem like much while you’re watching it. The events just plod along, and Moore doesn’t make any obvious effort to connect with the viewer. And yet I’ve never forgotten it. It’s genuinely haunting.

Haynes is a moron. I love his camp-less remakes if Sirk and Joanie movies. Too clever for his own good, as pointed out above.

I saw it. It's a strange, effective film. And Moore seemed perfect in her role.

Meryl would have been perfect for the role

I never figured out the ending. Did the movie imply that all these women were nuts?

Was her husband poisoning her?

The one Haynes film I really did like was Wonderstruck. Despite the self-consciousness of the film's concept, there was a lot of real humanity in the movie, which is more than you can say about most of his work.

Well, I loved Far from Heaven -- and Julianne Moore was truly lovely.

Well, Far From Heaven was a lot better than Carol. Was it Peter Jackson who convinced everyone that Cate Blanchett just had to smirk at the camera for two hours and everyone would supposedly go nuts? She has the charisma of a carrot if you ask me.

Anyone wanting to revisit a classic Julianne performance needs to watch The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ASAP.

R19, no the classic Julianne performance is Frannie/Sabrina in As The World Turns.

I hated Carol -- and I'm a lesbian! I don't know who the target audience was supposed to be.

she made too many movies.....tired of her face and her sad sack ginger gloom....

[quote]I kept dreaming of hiding her epi-pen

And just where were you planning on sticking it r3?

I don't think the character is meant to be even slightly interesting or compelling.

So why make an uninteresting and not compelling character the center of your movie???

SAFE is an intellectual conceit rather than a movie.

She's just the type of empty she'll who falls in with these new age cults. Remember when she just went along with the fruit diet thing her pal talked her into? Spineless