Safe (1995)

don’t @ me but todd haynes made a film about a straight white cisgender woman that illustrates Queer experience more incisively and viscerally than the vast majority of contemporary films showcasing queer (identified) characters and that’s the power of cinema baby

Hari Nef

I'm just a total milkaholic, actually. I mean, before the fruit thing.

K. Austin Collins

Trading in one prison for another. The body rebels. One of the greatest feats of poisoned, alienated ambiance ever.

Josh Lewis

part of what makes Safe work so well is its ambiguity. is it about a gullible woman being preyed on by a cult, is it about the danger of 'self help culture'? or is it about the mishandling of the aids crisis, or maybe freeing oneself from suburban hell? what cuts through…

cameron fetter

There's enough films about suburban ennui and cult like dependence that one might worry that Safe has the worry of losing its edge these days, but Haynes's details, perception, and god damn craft more or less trumps any of those individual films off the top of my head.…

Peter Labuza

A movie about how living with men gives you a rash

dselwyns

confessions of a milkaholic

Laura

Sick of it all. Even the camera keeps its distance as we watch the ant-farm proceedings. Except for that final, crushing close-up. Alone, with nowhere left to go but in: the self-help trap.

laird

The final twenty minutes of this epic social tragedy reduces down to hideously destroyed people (read: everyone) expressing complicity, fury, sadness, and dissolution over an impossible future. Then Julianne Moore moves into a “safe house” that resembles a steel bubble, her…

Sean Fennessey