Safe

Director: Todd Haynes
119 mins Film4 Archive

Todd Haynes's striking character study, starring Julianne Moore.

What if every object that filled the ordinary landscape of your daily life - your bed, your toothbrush, your cologne, your clothes - began to turn - slowly, incomprehensibly - into a potential weapon, a threat to the very structure of your identity? Safe tells the story of a Los Angeles wife and mother, whose comfortable existence falls apart when her world takes just such a turn, and she learns that she, like thousands of other primarily suburban women, has become environmentally ill.