All That Heaven Allows (1955) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

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Country of origin:: USA, 1955
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Item number:: 11134783
UPC/EAN:: 5050629116830
Release date:: 13.3.2023
Series:: Criterion Collection
Genre:: Drama, Romanze
Playing time ca.:: 89 Min.
Director:: Douglas Sirk
Actor:: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel
Film music:: Frank Skinner
German title:: Was der Himmel erlaubt
Language:: Englisch
Sound Format:: mono
Picture:: Widescreen
Subtitles:: Englisch

This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk follows the blossoming love between a well-off widow (Jane Wyman) and her handsome and earthy younger gardener (Rock Hudson). When their romance prompts the scorn of her children and country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others. With the help of ace cinematographer Russell Metty, Sirk imbues nearly every shot with a vivid and distinct emotional tenor. A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama.

Special Features

2K digital restoration
Audio commentary featuring film scholars John Mercer and Tamar Jeffers-McDonald
Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (1992), a groundbreaking essay film about the actor by Mark Rappaport
French television interview with director Douglas Sirk from 1982
Excerpts from Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with the director
Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk, a 2007 interview with the actor, who costarred in three Sirk films, including All That Heaven Allows
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
An essay by film scholar Laura Mulvey and an excerpt from a 1971 essay on Sirk by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Reviews

»Eine Witwe verzichtet zunächst um der Kinder willen und aus Rücksicht auf Konventionen in der Kleinstadt auf eine Ehe mit einem jüngeren Mann, entscheidet sich nach einem Unfall jedoch für den Geliebten.« (Lexikon des Int.Films)