Heaven (2002)
Directed by Tom Tykwer
A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.
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What critics compared Heaven to
"Heaven," from Haynes' original script, was inspired by the coded Hollywood soap operas of '50s director Douglas Sirk, but the less complicated plot of "Carol" comes from "The Price of Salt," a 1952 novel of same-sex romance originally published under an alias by suspense specialist Patricia Highsmith, famed writer of such cinema-ready classics as "Strangers on a Train" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley."
It’s also a slightly different approach to the ’50s for director Todd Haynes, who previously explored the era’s spirit-crushing repression in 2002’s hugely acclaimed Far From Heaven .
Carol feels like the third part of a loose trilogy — preceded by Far from Heaven and his HBO miniseries adaptation of Mildred Pierce — of films set in the past, about women who are trapped by the confines of their time.
Meanwhile, Jack (Dylan, looking like a Jewish Jack Palance in an oversized Stetson and toothpick of a suit) leaves jail (to the strains of "Like a Rolling Stone"), calls upon his pal Bobby Cupid (Luke Wilson, "Alex & Emma") to meet him and travels through a country of counter-revolutionaries. (A disillusioned soldier (Giovanni Ribisi, "Heaven") jumps off Jack's bus to confront them and is shot by the side of the road.)
Tykwer is an incredible visualist ("The Princess and the Warrior," "Heaven," "Run Lola Run"), and "Perfume" reaches such operatic, hand-painted heights of life and death, sections of the film look as though they were pulled from the walls of an art gallery.
Director Tom Tykwer ("Run, Lola, Run," "Heaven") finally stops trying to be the late, great Krzysztof Kieslowski and in so doing, delivers a breathtaking film.