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Carol

2015

Todd Haynes

Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler ...

7.0

22,373

Romance. Drama 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is a creamily sensuous, richly observed piece of work, handsomely detailed and furnished (...) I went into a trance watching it – and haven’t quite surfaced, even now. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara give brilliant performances in Todd Haynes' exquisitely drawn adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1950s lesbian love story."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"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)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"'Carol' is gorgeous, gently groundbreaking (...) rippling with a very specific mid-century melancholy, understanding love as the riskiest but most necessary gamble in anyone’s experience. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"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."	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"A fragile narrative as exquisite and tender as Chantilly lace, Mr. Haynes fits the emotions to the period like the movements in a symphony"	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"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"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"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"	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"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)"	POS
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"ts story is ultimately too familiar and chilly to truly hit the melodramatic peaks of Haynes's Far From Heaven, but it nonetheless boasts a commendable understanding of the complexities of human desire"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"Made of crystal and suppressed tears, shot eternally through windows and mirrors and half-closed doors (...) 'Carol' is a love story that starts at a trickle, swells gradually to a torrent, and finally bursts the banks of your heart."	POS

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