All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson star in Douglas Sirk's lush Technicolor melodrama that transforms suburban romance into a cutting critique of middle-class conformity. <em>Part of the series <a href="/technicolor-series">The Wonderful World of Technicolor</a>, a seven-week celebration of Technicolor’s most dazzling achievements, showcasing the films that define cinema’s golden age of colour. The Tuesday evening screening will be introduced by series curators Adam Cook and Hilary Jay.</em> Veiled in the familiar vernacular of the 1950s “woman’s picture,” All That Heaven Allows is a scathing class critique centered around the steamy romance between a middle-class widow (Jane Wyman) and her rugged gardener (Rock Hudson)—a love frowned upon by her children and her judgmental neighbors, whose disapproval threatens to ostracize her from suburban society. German émigré Douglas Sirk, whose Hollywood career was defined by both his fluency in melodrama and Brechtian theatre, exposes the cruelty lurking beneath bourgeois civility. Using the full expressive capabilities of Technicolor, he crafts a masterpiece overflowing with full-coloured emotion, rendered poignantly ironic by the conformist repression that seeks to erase it.RomancePT1H29MRated PG2026-02-14Jane Wyman
Rock Hudson
Agnes Moorehead
Douglas Sirk
Ross Hunter
All That Heaven Allows (1955)"All That Heaven Allows (1955)"Showtimes
February 14, 4:10 pm
February 15, 1:30 pm
February 17, 6:00 pm
February 18, 3:20 pm
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