The sick fetishization of the subject matter

LetThemEatCake, the film presently has a 98% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 95 score on Metacritic, so it's being well-received by critics. There's Oscar buzz for the film, its screenplay, and Chalamet, Hammer, and Stuhlbarg for acting.

Furthermore, even though CMBYN only opened in four theaters in the US over the weekend (two in LA, two in NY), it made an estimated $404K at 4 theaters, $101K per, the highest per-theater-average of the year.

Having just seen it today, I can assure you that the skies are blue throughout the film.

As far as the skin, I didn't notice it not having texture; I think I just thought Armie Hammer's face looked perfect like always.

Regarding the cinematography though, I do believe it was the filmmaker's intention to present an idyllic world, which, if that was the intention, was brilliantly achieved. Have you seen Far From Heaven? If so, what do you think of its cinematography? The film, I think due to the screenplay (and the actors execution of it) and the cinematography, is actually kind of cheesy. Obviously though, Todd Hayne's vision was to present our revisionist, idealized version of the 50's and hold this version up against truths we wanted to deny existed; in the case of this film, one of these truths is that there were gay people and unhappy marriages during the beloved 1950's.

I find at least a vague similarity in CMBYN; they're in this idyllic, utopian place living very charmed lives, but everything isn't as easy and simple as it would seem.