Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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SAFE (1995), a breakthrough film for its writer-director Todd Haynes and star Julianne Moore, is now available on 4K+Blu-ray from Criterion in a new, director-approved 4K restoration: criterion.com/films/28548-safe
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*About _Safe_*
Julianne Moore gives a revelatory performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies.
A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, SAFE functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you cannot see. This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a _Village Voice_ poll of more than fifty critics.
Subscribe to Criterion: youtube.com/channel/UCAP57cF-FSjJKzzXg7ntPlQ?sub_confirmation=1
SAFE (1995), a breakthrough film for its writer-director Todd Haynes and star Julianne Moore, is now available on 4K+Blu-ray from Criterion in a new, director-approved 4K restoration: criterion.com/films/28548-safe
Watch the full Criterion Closet Picks episodes: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D89754A5DAD1E8E
*About _Safe_*
Julianne Moore gives a revelatory performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies.
A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, SAFE functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you cannot see. This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a _Village Voice_ poll of more than fifty critics.
