With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.Beneath the glassy surfaces of nearly every Todd Haynes’ movie lives a woman pressing against them, about to break out.
Julianne Moore has played two of those: a suburban housewife chained to the social order of racially segregated 1950s Connecticut in “Far From Heaven,” and as another psychically shackled housewife, this time in 1980s Southern California, in “Safe.”More from IndieWireStream of the Day: How ‘Ganja & Hess’ Became Much More Than a Black Vampire StoryStream of the Day: Sofia Coppola’s ‘Bling Ring’ Knows What It’s Like to Feel DisconnectedThough released in 1995, “Safe” is set in 1987, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in America.
Haynes’ roots as a queer filmmaker often find him responding to that crisis, most
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