If you loved Velvet Goldmine, try Lontano dal paradiso
Un ponte tra un film che hai già visto e uno che quasi nessuno ha incrociato. Questo è ciò che condividono, e ciò che il secondo fa che il primo non fa.
Cosa condividono
Both films are directed by Todd Haynes, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Velvet Goldmine, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Lontano dal paradiso is
A powder-blue 1957 Oldsmobile idles in a Connecticut driveway while the nachos are burning. Cathy Whitaker’s perfect life springs a leak when her husband’s affair goes postal and her gardener’s son gets set on fire by the PTA. Haynes re-stages Douglas Sirk in brighter hues to show that Eisenhower’s dream home was just a ranch with more plumbing problems.

