A lush emotional melodrama along the lines of the films of Douglas Sirk, Haynes' patron saint, "Carol" is often about its surfaces, their beauty contrasting with the scary duality of people, relationships. The surfaces in "Carol" are so seductive that one understands the ache to belong in that world. Therese ( Rooney Mara) works behind the toy ...
Carol
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NYT Critic's Pick. Directed by Todd Haynes. Drama, Romance. R. 1h 58m. By A.O. Scott. Nov. 19, 2015. Mutual attraction may be central to our notion of love, but it is a curiously rare occurrence ...
Carol (2015)
Carol: Directed by Todd Haynes. With Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson. An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Carol is the most beautiful movie of the year
Carol is the most beautiful movie of the year. This swooning love story charts a relationship between two women in 1950s New York. by Emily St. James. Nov 20, 2015, 10:10 AM PST. If you buy ...
Movie Review: 'Carol' : NPR
Movie Review: 'Carol' Director Todd Haynes has adopted a 1952 Patricia Highsmith novel about a divorcing woman who meets a young shop assistant. It's a love story that stars Cate Blanchett and ...
Carol
Set in 1950s New York, two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in the throes of love. A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between ...
Film Review: 'Carol'
Film Review: 'Carol'. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara give brilliant performances in Todd Haynes' exquisitely drawn adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1950s lesbian love story. With his ...
Carol
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2022. Todd Haynes and Phyllis Nagy created a compelling, extraordinary tale about love and its meanders in life. The time passes, but Carol remains ...
'Carol' Review: Cate Blanchett Radiates Passion in Todd Haynes' Near
Sexuality and repression clash in gorgeous, aching adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's groundbreaking lesbian novel. "Carol" fits the mold of director Todd Haynes ' extraordinary work, in ...
Carol (film)
Carol is a 2015 historical romance film directed by Todd Haynes.The screenplay by Phyllis Nagy is based on the 1952 romance novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (republished as Carol in 1990). The film stars Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, and Kyle Chandler.Set in New York City during the early 1950s, Carol tells the story of a forbidden affair between an ...
Review: The beautiful and thrilling 'Carol' belongs among the best
Superbly adapted by Phyllis Nagy, "Carol" is based on "The Price of Salt," a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith, best known for unnerving psychological thrillers such as "Strangers on a ...
Carol
Movie Review. The human will is a remarkable thing. Few of us succeed by accident. ... Carol is a compellingly crafted and deeply problematic movie. It features one of the best actresses of our era presiding over a delicately nuanced, deeply probing look at society and relationships in the 1950s.
'Carol' Review: The Most Romantic Movie of the Year
In short, 'Carol' is one of the best films of 2015. Period. Note: This is a repost of our review from the Telluride Film Festival ; Carol begins in limited release tomorrow, November 20, and will ...
Carol Review
The little moments — the silences, the looks, the longing — build and build, to power a freight train of feeling. The film has some of its most poignant moments not in its central love but ...
Carol (2015)
A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and ...
Carol (2015)
Carol is a mature lady who seduces an inexperienced girl. Carol is a wealthy lady who seduces a poor employee. Also the acting by Cate Blanchett is explicitly predator- ish, and the acting by Rooney Mara explicitly victim-ish. The exposition of the judicial trouble facing lesbians at the time is ambiguous as well.
'Carol' Movie Review
Haynes' commitment to outcasts, then and now, makes Carol a romantic spellbinder that cuts deep. It's one of the year's very best films. Blanchett and Mara should have Oscar calling for ...
Movie Review: Carol (2015)
The narrative formulation of Carol is traditional, yet the quality of the film is fine-tuned for maximum impact, an achievement brilliantly realized by cinematographer Edward Lachman, the production designers and set decorators, and especially the superb award-winning performances of Mara and Blanchett. While we learn little about how both ...
Movie Review: 'Carol'
Movie Review: 'Carol'. By AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER and ROBIN LINDSAY • November 20, 2015. The Times critic A. O. Scott reviews "Carol.".
Carol Movie Review
Moving lesbian themed 1950s romance. Carol is a wonderfully acted 1950s romantic melodrama, it stars Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. The two lead actresses do a great job at playing their roles in both a realistic and likable way. I was really moved and touched by the forbidden romance portrayed onscreen.
Movie review: Todd Haynes's 'Carol' casts a beguiling spell
By Ann Hornaday. December 24, 2015 at 8:45 a.m. EST. In early 1950s Manhattan, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), meets an older woman, Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett), and the two start a romantic but ...
Carol
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A lush emotional melodrama along the lines of the films of Douglas Sirk, Haynes' patron saint, "Carol" is often about its surfaces, their beauty contrasting with the scary duality of people, relationships. The surfaces in "Carol" are so seductive that one understands the ache to belong in that world. Therese ( Rooney Mara) works behind the toy ...
chitown2bayarea There's something about 2 girls kissing. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/27/24 Full Review Franny E Captivating, although the movie should've been a lot longer Rated ...
NYT Critic's Pick. Directed by Todd Haynes. Drama, Romance. R. 1h 58m. By A.O. Scott. Nov. 19, 2015. Mutual attraction may be central to our notion of love, but it is a curiously rare occurrence ...
Carol: Directed by Todd Haynes. With Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson. An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Carol is the most beautiful movie of the year. This swooning love story charts a relationship between two women in 1950s New York. by Emily St. James. Nov 20, 2015, 10:10 AM PST. If you buy ...
Movie Review: 'Carol' Director Todd Haynes has adopted a 1952 Patricia Highsmith novel about a divorcing woman who meets a young shop assistant. It's a love story that stars Cate Blanchett and ...
Set in 1950s New York, two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in the throes of love. A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between ...
Film Review: 'Carol'. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara give brilliant performances in Todd Haynes' exquisitely drawn adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1950s lesbian love story. With his ...
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2022. Todd Haynes and Phyllis Nagy created a compelling, extraordinary tale about love and its meanders in life. The time passes, but Carol remains ...
Sexuality and repression clash in gorgeous, aching adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's groundbreaking lesbian novel. "Carol" fits the mold of director Todd Haynes ' extraordinary work, in ...
Carol is a 2015 historical romance film directed by Todd Haynes.The screenplay by Phyllis Nagy is based on the 1952 romance novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (republished as Carol in 1990). The film stars Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, and Kyle Chandler.Set in New York City during the early 1950s, Carol tells the story of a forbidden affair between an ...
Superbly adapted by Phyllis Nagy, "Carol" is based on "The Price of Salt," a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith, best known for unnerving psychological thrillers such as "Strangers on a ...
Movie Review. The human will is a remarkable thing. Few of us succeed by accident. ... Carol is a compellingly crafted and deeply problematic movie. It features one of the best actresses of our era presiding over a delicately nuanced, deeply probing look at society and relationships in the 1950s.
In short, 'Carol' is one of the best films of 2015. Period. Note: This is a repost of our review from the Telluride Film Festival ; Carol begins in limited release tomorrow, November 20, and will ...
The little moments — the silences, the looks, the longing — build and build, to power a freight train of feeling. The film has some of its most poignant moments not in its central love but ...
A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and ...
Carol is a mature lady who seduces an inexperienced girl. Carol is a wealthy lady who seduces a poor employee. Also the acting by Cate Blanchett is explicitly predator- ish, and the acting by Rooney Mara explicitly victim-ish. The exposition of the judicial trouble facing lesbians at the time is ambiguous as well.
Haynes' commitment to outcasts, then and now, makes Carol a romantic spellbinder that cuts deep. It's one of the year's very best films. Blanchett and Mara should have Oscar calling for ...
The narrative formulation of Carol is traditional, yet the quality of the film is fine-tuned for maximum impact, an achievement brilliantly realized by cinematographer Edward Lachman, the production designers and set decorators, and especially the superb award-winning performances of Mara and Blanchett. While we learn little about how both ...
Movie Review: 'Carol'. By AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER and ROBIN LINDSAY • November 20, 2015. The Times critic A. O. Scott reviews "Carol.".
Moving lesbian themed 1950s romance. Carol is a wonderfully acted 1950s romantic melodrama, it stars Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. The two lead actresses do a great job at playing their roles in both a realistic and likable way. I was really moved and touched by the forbidden romance portrayed onscreen.
By Ann Hornaday. December 24, 2015 at 8:45 a.m. EST. In early 1950s Manhattan, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), meets an older woman, Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett), and the two start a romantic but ...
Carol (U.S./U.K./France, 2015) December 06, 2015. A movie review by James Berardinelli. Carol is a haunting motion picture - the kind of film that stays with the viewer long after the multiplex's neon signage has disappeared from the rear-view mirror. Despite having a deceptively simple storyline, the film is entirely unlike any other period ...
IMDb Rating: 5.2/10. A Carol Christmas is undoubtedly the wildest version of Dickens' novella. The Hallmark Christmas movie features Tori Spelling as Ebenezer Scrooge, or in this case, Carol. The ...
Between the Temples: Directed by Nathan Silver. With Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly De Leon, Caroline Aaron. A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Robbie's is Stereotypical Barbie, what you think of when you think of Barbie. Her job is to be perfect. The Kens, meanwhile, are basically there to support the Barbies. Gosling's Ken, in ...