Safe - **1/2

Julianne Moore carries this film far, considering it's meticulous pacing, and proved she'd be a contending actress in the coming years. She's the new/next Meryl Streep and has caught my attention since my initial screening of Short Cuts back in 1993. Comparing this effort from writer/director Todd Haynes to his visually stunning Far From Heaven, it seems isolated housewives (both Julianne Moore) may be a common theme that interests him, although I don't recall this theme in Velvet Goldmine.