Far from Heaven and Far From Hell

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2009)

Since the quiet triumph of Haynes' "Far from Heaven" among the most delicate critic circles films have been trying to recompose the elegant justice of Sirk's urban dramas proper from the 50's. Revolutionary Road is a clean, obvious attempt at that.
From the ornate composition of interiors to the double-standard acting myriad everything is a blatant attempt to reconstruct the epoca of the 1950 and the movies characteristics of it. The wrong turn is taken with the unattractive story, the common and stamped characters and the very weak development. Di Caprio, though, is phenomenal. On my part, Winslet was overly dramatic and boring.
Decide yourself, the movie relies on the objective of being a time machine, a reconstruction, but it's not worth an instant viewing.