Cate Blanchett

Rooney Mara

Kyle Chandler

Jake Lacy

Sarah Paulson

John Magaro

Cory Michael Smith

Kevin Crowley

Nik Pajic

Carrie Brownstein

Trent Rowland

Sadie Heim

Kk Heim

Amy Warner

Michael Haney

Wendy Lardin

Pamela Evans Haynes

Greg Violand

Michael Joseph Thomas Ward

Kay Geiger

Christine Dye

Deb G. Girdler

Douglas Scott Sorenson

Ken Strunk

Mike Dennis

Ann Reskin

Annie Kalahurka

Linnea Bond

Steven Andrews

Tanya Smith

Ryan Wesley Gilreath

Chuck Gillespie

Jeremy Parker

Giedre Bond

Taylor Marie Frey

Liberty Fraysure

Robert J. Ashe

Anita Farmer Bergman

Colin Botts

Chelsea Carnder

Gary Chinn

Kelly Reichardt

Judy Becker

Stephen Woolley

Elizabeth Karlsen

Heather Loeffler

Dorothy Berwin

Todd Haynes

Christine Vachon

Sandy Powell

Jon Griffith

Amy Cluxton

Erik Werlin

Karen Young

Edson Williams

Allison Paul

Gina Nalli

Leyna Haller

Patricia Highsmith

Phyllis Nagy

Affonso Gonçalves

Edward Lachman

Gwen Bialic

Tessa Ross

Carter Burwell

Jesse Rosenthal

Laura Rosenthal

Harvey Weinstein

Danny Perkins

Bob Weinstein

Thorsten Schumacher

Randall Poster

Andrew Upton

Belle Francisco

Jerry DeCarlo

Craig Haagensen

Wilson Webb

Leslie Shatz

Patricia Regan

Todd Kasow

David Davenport

Mark Friedberg

Sarah Young

Luke Nye

Lidia Tamplenizza

John W. DeBlau

Lucas Staley

Susan Bakula

Amy Faust

Mike Dickman

Thomas William Vincent

Meredith Nunnikhoven

Christine Lee

James McMillan

Adam N. White

Christopher Walters

Joel Weaver

Martha Smith

Gretchen McGowan

James David Redding III

Chris Haney

Jeff Barklage

John Zanardelli

Anne Taylor

Paul Peabody

Alex Esber

Jesse Nye

Scott Lipez

Megan McGilvery

Kate Wilson

John Jack Curtin

Kenneth Coulman

Alan Forbes

Chris Salamone

Jenn McLaren

Carla Meyer

Francis Link Boysie

Eric Johns

Nigel Maxwell

Bob Smith

Kelly Laufenberg

Tom Cherry

Jeff Fisher

Deirdre Costa

Jeni Lee Dinkel

Daniel Fisher

Russ Faust

Kirk R. Gardner

Marlene McCarty

Eliza Paley

Tony Martinez

Geoff Maxwell

Kyle LeMire

Morag Ross

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Carol

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Number 9 Films

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United States of America

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hotel

new year's eve

chicago, illinois

new york city

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

age difference

department store

photography

road trip

lesbian relationship

divorce

lesbian sex

lgbt

santa hat

child custody

older woman younger woman relationship

1950s

lesbian

ambiguous

comforting

hopeful

Reno

> Just when it can't get any better...

The first thing I noticed was after seeing the movie is there's some kind of mistake in the Oscars nominee. Rooney Mara should have been on the lead role list, while Cate Blanchett in the supporting character's. Maybe the Academy people misunderstood that the title role must be the lead character. Theirs switched place actually does not make any sense. Anyway the Oscars never made sense at all.

This story was okay, but adapted screenplay and direction, especially the music was excellent. For the ending scene alone, you will be tempted to raise your rating than what you initially thought it deserves. I was not expecting the movie to be awesome, so I'm not upset for the overall movie.

Believe me, the last thing I want in this movie is to see Cate Blanchett in naked. Maybe out of respect or her age or she's not attracted to me, there are plenty of reasons that I can't figure it out which one, but after knowing what this theme is, I was only praying for that not to happen. And obviously that is unavoidable, otherwise the movie will lose its soul and strength.

Well, it was better than I thought, both the actresses were good, but Rooney Mara dominated. Whatever category she's in for the Oscars, I'll be happy if she wins. It is not a must watch, but a decent movie and betters in some parts.

7/10

'Carol' is beautifully shot and very maturely made. The acting was very class all around the film. The whole thing seemed like it was taken from the 40s. I loved how fine it all looked and felt and it deserved a lot more awards than it got.

★★★★

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"Therese" (Rooney Mara) is pretty unfulfilled, clerking in a department store that's frequented by the far more interesting "Carol" (Cate Blanchett). Their first meeting ignites a spark, and that spark quite quickly takes over both of their lives as the story unfolds and there develops an inter-dependency between the women. The latter is married to the wealthy "Harge" (Kyle Chandler) but it's an hollow arrangement that is coming to an end in the divorce court - their daughter together proving to be quite an important pawn in those proceedings. "Therese" has a long-term boyfriend "Richard" (Jake Lacy) who wants to settle down and get married - so both have much to lose as their relationship becomes more important and intimate. "Harge" has shrewdly inserted a morality clause into their proposed shared custody arrangement and is none too shy of resorting to some fairly underhand methods of tracking his wife's activities to prove that she isn't fit to have any access at all to their child. We also have to consider the closeness of the friendship between "Carol" and her best friend "Abby" (Sarah Paulson) and by mid way through the internecine complexities of their lives they risk leaving everyone with nothing. It's a romance, this, but largely devoid of sentimentality. A love story that is more visceral in nature, where one love is essentially climbing on top of another for supremacy over the heart and the head! It's Mara who does most of the heavy lifting, her character seems the more plausibly conflicted; but Blanchett delivers well as the desperate mother increasingly hemmed in by circumstance little of her making. The film looks great, the production design and Carter Burwell's period score adding a richness to a theme that offers us some intricate characters and scenarios that are anything but straightforward. It's maybe just a little too dialogue heavy - there's a lot of verbiage - but that's incidental. It's still a classy piece of cinema.

Script to Scene

The Language of Love in CAROL | The Cinema Cartography Video Essay

From Sketches to Screen

Todd Haynes and Rooney Mara on their film CAROL

BAFTA Q&A with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara: “It’s a Love Story. Period” | Carol

Patricia Highsmith Series: Carol

PHILLIS NAGY on Carol | Books on Film | TIFF 2017

CAROL - 30" TV Spot - Starring Cate Blanchett And Rooney Mara

Carol | First Look | Starring Cate Blanchett And Rooney Mara

'Carol' Q&A | Todd Haynes

Official Final Trailer

Highsmith On Film

Time and Place

Girls Night In With Music, Drinks & Trying Out Perfume

Carol & Therese

Todd Haynes | NYFF53 Directors Dialogue | Carol

Jack Interrupts Dinner

Cate Blanchett & Rooney Mara on Carol | Film4 Interview Special

NYFF Live | Cinematographer Ed Lachman (Carol) | NYFF53

Official DVD Teaser Trailer

Academy Conversations: Carol

CAROL director Todd Haynes and Rooney Mara

CAROL Director Todd Haynes at AFI FEST 2015

Carol Onstage Intro - American Express® Gala | BFI London Film Festival

Todd Haynes - Carol at London Film Festival - LFF Instants | BFI London Film Festival

Cate Blanchett - Carol at London Film Festival - LFF Instants | BFI London Film Festival

John Magaro - Carol at London Film Festival - LFF Instants | BFI London Film Festival

Rooney Mara - Carol at London Film Festival - LFF Instants | BFI London Film Festival

Official International Trailer

Carol | Film4 Trailer

Official Teaser Trailer

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Written by Reno on Fri Mar 04 2016

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