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...Fernando Valley in 1987, a man and a woman make love. Or rather, he does, plowing away at his passion. She studies the ceiling while holding him like a reluctant mother. Carol (Julianne Moore) and Greg (Xander Berkeley) live in suburban comfort, yet Carol is anything but comfortable. Ordinary fragrances and fumes make her ill. She hyperventilates in her car. She suffers from nosebleeds and vomiting. She can't ... she has trouble ... sentences are a problem for her. She has lost control of herself and her environment. "Where am I? Right now?" she asks her husband...
...Carol is "allergic to the 20th century," and Safe tells of her attempts to understand and conquer her condition at Wrenwood, a "chemical-free zone" in New Mexico. Writer-director Todd Haynes, who made the importantly weird short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Poison, a minimalist epic of sex and longing in the age of aids, again has decay and estrangement in mind. This scarily confident, beautifully acted study is gnomic and anomic, like a TV disease movie made in an alternate universe. And in Moore's pretty, aggrieved face, Haynes finds the ideal vessel for his concerns...
...just another form of addiction." The Wrenwood patients could be searchers or fools, the staff fakers or dupes-or healers. The brazen majesty of Haynes' approach is that he spills no secrets, makes no obvious judgments. Safe is its own unique thing, as seductive as the sherbety decor of Carol's home, as mysterious as the illness that seizes her. It will also seize any viewer who dares to surrender to its spell. Feel free to laugh or scream...
...Carol Friedman '73 was active in the StudentMobilization Committee, an anti-war nationalcampus group. She attended the moratorium atWashington in October...
Hiestand's wife Carol, however, chose to fly to New Jersey, where she met up with Coleman's wife, Ruthe...