All That Heaven Allows
Dir: Douglas Sirk
USA, 1955, 89minmins, DCP
Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
The most beloved and well-known of Sirk’s melodramas is at once an affecting romance and a withering critique of post-war, small-town America, with its repressively conformist ethos. When a widow of means falls in love with her free-thinking, much younger gardener, the relationship leads to gossip and condemnation from her family and the community. All That Heaven Allows brings together all the key collaborators – stars Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman, cinematographer Russell Metty, and producer Ross Hunter – for the most perfect realisation of the Sirkian aesthetic, and has been hugely influential on such later filmmakers as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, and Todd Haynes.
K11 Art House
Tai Kwun
Chinese Subtitles
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