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All That Heaven Allows
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- Metrograph
German émigré director Douglas Sirk’s Technicolor romance pits a widow’s new love against family and small-town convention.
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- In person
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- Metrograph, 7 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002, Manhattan, New York City
About this event
Jane Wyman plays a well-off widow who falls for her younger gardener, played by Rock Hudson, in Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows. Her children and social circle turn the relationship into a test of class and respectability in a film that profoundly influenced Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Metrograph presents Sirk’s 1955 American melodrama on 35mm as part of The Leaves Are Falling. Running time: 89 minutes. Tickets through Metrograph.
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American film by German-born émigré director Douglas Sirk; DACH artist connection.