Editing All That Heaven Allows (section)

==Reception==
The film press compared the movie favorably to ''[[Magnificent Obsession (1954 film)|Magnificent Obsession]]'' (1954), which also starred Wyman and Hudson and was directed by Sirk. A review in ''Motion Picture Daily'' was generally positive and praised Sirk for his use of color and [[mise en scène]], saying: "In a print by [[Technicolor]], the exterior shots and the interior settings are so beautifully photographed that they point up the action of the story with telling effect."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Motion Picture Daily |title=All That Heaven Allows |last=Steen |first=Al |page=7 |volume=October–December 1955 |access-date=18 November 2016 |url= https://archive.org/details/motionpicturedai78unse_0/page/n179/mode/1up}}</ref>

Although Sirk's reputation waned in the 1960s—as he was dismissed as a director of dated and insubstantial Hollywood melodramas—it was revived in the 1970s due to the praise of [[New German Cinema]] directors like [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]] and the publication of [[Jon Halliday]]'s ''Sirk on Sirk'' (1971), in which the filmmaker describes his aesthetic and (often-subversive) social perspective.<ref>{{cite web|first=Manuel |last=Betancourt |title=Douglas Sirk: From the Archives |website=[[Film Comment]] |date=December 22, 2015 |url=http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/sirk-from-the-archives}}</ref> His reputation, and that of ''All That Heaven Allows'', has grown since then, with critic [[Richard Brody]] describing him as a master of both melodrama and comedy, and the film as remarkable for its use of [[Henry David Thoreau]]'s ''[[Walden]]'' as a homegrown American philosophy depicted as a "vital and ongoing experience."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Richard |last=Brody |author-link=Richard Brody |title=Douglas Sirk's Glorious Cinema of Outsiders |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=December 21, 2015 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/douglas-sirks-glorious-cinema-of-outsiders}}</ref>

On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''All That Heaven Allows'' has an approval rating of 91% based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The consensus summarizes: "Big heart, big drama, and even bigger colors, ''All That Heaven Allows'' is tip top Douglas Sirk."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_that_heaven_allows/?search=all%20that%20heaven%20allows |title=All That Heaven Allows |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref>