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Original title: Carol
Year: 2015
Running time: 118 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Todd Haynes
Screenwriter: Phyllis Nagy. Novel: Patricia Highsmith
Music: Carter Burwell
Cinematography: Edward Lachman
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Cory Michael Smith, Carrie Brownstein, John Magaro, Kevin Crowley, Ryan Wesley Gilreath, Trent Rowland, Jim Dougherty, Douglas Scott Sorenson, Nik Pajic
Producer: Film4 Productions, Killer Films, Number 9 Films
Genre: Romance. Drama | 1950s. Gay & Lesbian. Romantic Drama. Melodrama. New Year's Eve
Movie Groups: Patricia Highsmith Adaptations
Synopsis: In New York in the early 1950s, Therese Belivet, is working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol Aird, an alluring woman trapped in a failing marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and their connection deepens.

When Carol’s involvement with Therese comes to light, Carol's husband retaliates by challenging her competence as a mother. And as Carol and Therese take refuge on the road, leaving their respective lives behind, a confrontation emerges that will test each woman's assumptions about herself and commitments to one another.

Awards: 2015: Academy Awards: 6 Nominations including Best Actress (Cate Blanchett)

2015: Golden Globes: 5 Nominations including Best Picture & Director

2015: Cannes Film Festival: Best Actress (Rooney Mara)

2015: BAFTA Awards: 9 nominations, including Best Film

2015: David di Donatello Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

2015: Guldbagge Awards (Sweden): Nominated for Best Foreign Film

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2015: American Film Institute (AFI): Top 10 - Best 2015 Films

2015: Independent Spirit Awards: Best Cinematography. 6 Nominations

2015: Critics Choice Awards: 9 Nominations including Best Film & Director

2015: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Film, Director, Screenplay & Cinematography

2015: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Music Score. 4 Nom.

2015: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Nominated for Best International Independent Film

2015: Screen Actors Guild (SAG): Nom. Actress (Blanchett) & Sup. Actress (Mara)

2015: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay

2015: Gotham Awards: Nominated for Best Picture, Screenplay & Actress (Blanchet)

2015: Satellite Awards: Best Score. 5 Nominations

2015: Chicago Film Critics Awards: 6 Nominations including Best Picture

2015: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Director & Cinematography. 3 Nom.

2015: San Francisco Film Critics Circle: Best Production Design. 7 Nominations

Critics' reviews

"Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara give brilliant performances in Todd Haynes' exquisitely drawn adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1950s lesbian love story."

Justin Chang: Variety
"A romantic spellbinder that cuts deep. It's one of the year's very best films. Blanchett and Mara should have Oscar calling (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"Outstanding performances by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (...) make something special out of 'Carol', Todd Haynes’ fastidious, intelligent and somewhat leisurely adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s (...) novel."

Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter
"A fragile narrative as exquisite and tender as Chantilly lace, Mr. Haynes fits the emotions to the period like the movements in a symphony"

Rex Reed: The New York Observer
"A gorgeous time capsule capturing the manners and mores of America at the start of the conservative Eisenhower era, bristling with a pair of lead performances that stand among the year's best"

Chris Nashawaty: Entertainment Weekly
"At once ardent and analytical, cerebral and swooning, 'Carol' is a study in human magnetism, in the physics and optics of eros (...) the film is a symphony of angles and glances, of colors and shadows"

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"With terrific acting performances and a bygone era that sparks to life with impressive filmmaking, Carol crafts a memorable romance gift-wrapped for the holiday (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"

Brian Truitt: USA Today
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