The moment in your heart where you can't stand being from who you are and where nothing else exists but true, heart wrenching love. It is It's films like Carol that take one back to love, the love that hurts and you feel through the characters of something everyone wishes for. It is beautiful, and I certainly do miss that feeling.
Breathtaking—every bit emotionally brilliant as it is visually stunning. With its against-the-grain subject matter and a sweetly, Breathtaking—every bit emotionally brilliant as it is visually stunning.
With its against-the-grain subject matter and a sweetly, compelling love story, CAROL will go on to be one of the greatest romances. LamontRaymond Nov 20, It's a beautifully shot film, and Cate Blanchette is amazing, as usual. But Mara is inert - she brings very little to the table, and the story itself is not extraordinarily compelling. A good solid little film, but nothing revolutionary, and nothing to justify such extraordinary critical It's a beautifully shot film, and Cate Blanchette is amazing, as usual.
A good solid little film, but nothing revolutionary, and nothing to justify such extraordinary critical acclaim. The road trip in the middle of the film saps much of the energy from the proceedings, in my mind. If you'd like a peek into the late 50's mood, this film does it, but it could have been much more.
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So it's sad to say Carol is a disappointment that never reaches the heights or depths of Brokeback Mountain. Yes, it reeks of atmosphere, style and subtleties but never seduces us. Blanchett a smoldering Rita Hayworth and Mara an innocent Audrey Hepburn enter into a forbidden love that leaves their significant others whirling in an unaccepting world. Yet the lingering pace, the spit focus and a simple narrative kept me interested but never riveted. Good is not great - but gushing critics only help foster the mediocre product we have gotten from Hollywood over the past year.
Haynes - please , sir, I want some more. Gorgeous production values but not much depth, other than in depicting the potentially devastating homophobia of the times - which of course is no small thing. But I kept wishing for the two leads to have a real conversation, especially on a road trip; the long silences made this Gorgeous production values but not much depth, other than in depicting the potentially devastating homophobia of the times - which of course is no small thing.
But I kept wishing for the two leads to have a real conversation, especially on a road trip; the long silences made this relationship seem boring. I felt the pace in general was too slow. But mostly, I just wanted to know these characters better, especially Therese.
Who was she, as a young woman, beyond her sexual preference? There's no dialogue that fills us in. Being "flung from space" might've been good enough for Carol but it wasn't for me. Despite the movie's critical acclaim for its authentic depiction of the damage done by homophobia, I have to say that it sells Therese short by having her lesbianism standing in for everything she was.
It pretty much summed her up, and what kind of "message" is that? I thought Mara's acting was stilted, but it may have had more to do with her role being so underwritten. There's also the absence of any consideration of class; how did Carol's wealth play into the attraction? This was a way into the character that was never developed. Also, the issue of Carol being threatened with losing custody of her daughter is there, and I doubt Highsmith felt very connected to it emotionally, so it wasn't necessary to do more with it, in an adaptation; but if something were to be "run with," I would've liked more about it than what's there in this film.
A beat near the end, maybe, to remind us of it? I read the book it was based on, and have to say, I liked it better, because it wasn't trying to be gorgeous. It felt more real. This movie certainly was gorgeous, and Cate Blanchett was perfect - stunning at times, especially that last shot of her. But, overall, I came away wishing there had been more substance, and that's not what I'd wanted to feel. Cate and the original screenplay saved this awfully directed movie.
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As their bond deepens and they become romantically involved, Carol finds the strength to leave her husband Kyle Chandler. Unfortunately, her spouse starts to raise questions about her fitness as a mother when he realizes that Carol's relationships with her best friend Abby Sarah Paulson and Therese are more than just friendships. Directed by Todd Haynes.
Cate Blanchett as Carol Aird. Kyle Chandler as Harge Aird. Rooney Mara as Therese Belivet. Sarah Paulson as Abby Gerhard.
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