Here they've banded together to breathe life into the 1975 novel that's become required reading for swoony preteens. |
Dreamy, swoony indie pop that calls out to sensitive sweater nerds and English majors everywhere. |
Yet Far From Heaven is a triumph on all counts, from Elmer Bernstein's swoony yet sabre-toothed score to the precise work of the cast. |
The icing on the decay is a swoony style, which prioritizes effect over meaning, and offers sensual pleasure at best. |
Better yet, that was the album's focus, with the swoony schmaltz-experiments Fridmann usually abets providing only the thinnest layer of icing. |
He has planned his first swoony days in office, a post-election honeymoon, but with the United Nations, not the U.S. Congress. |